Tevaland Farm visited Pascack Valley yesterday, giving students an opportunity to meet and interact with different animals. The non-profit animal rescue brought chicks, rabbits, a duck, and rats to the Wellness Center from the beginning of lunch to the end of Pascack Period A.

Taly Ron, owner of Tevaland Farm, presented the animals to the students, allowing them to pet and feed the animals.

“What we do is prevention of cruelty. That’s our main goal,” Ron said. “That and education.”

PV seniors Shannon Slattery and Jennifer Chayt currently intern at Tevaland Farm, helping to care for the animals, as part of the internship program run by Mrs. Laura Grier.

“We’re so grateful for the changes and the contributions that [the interns and Grier] have made that we decided to give back,” Ron said. “Because that’s what we’re all about. We’re all about giving back.”

Ron said that in visiting she wanted to show appreciation and love to Grier.

“We thought,” Ron continued, “‘let’s give back to the teacher so that she can see what [the interns] have been up to.’”

Tevaland Farm rescues livestock animals abandoned by owners in urban settings. The organization also offers an educational program involving the animals, not dissimilar to their visit to PV.

“We want to give a better life to animals that we rescue,” Ron said.

Tevaland has a wishlist of items that, if donated to the organization, would benefit the lives of the animals they rescue.