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New Family Farm ( 15 agriculture become increasingly hard to ignore (climate change, declining biodiversity, soil loss, water and air contamination, diminishing soil fertility), so-called conventional agriculture with its arsenal of petrochemicals and machinery may soon be regarded as backwards, while the kind of small-scale agriculture practiced at New Family Farm could offer a sustainable vision for the future. A person who works with draft animals is called a “teamster,â€? a term that has special meaning for Davidoff as someone working as a team with his partners, the animals and the earth. “We create this deep bond between people and the animals and the land,â€? he says. “There’s nothing I’d rather be doing. That’s magic.â€? For Power, a lanky man with long red hair and a red goatee to match, he’d much rather drive a team of horses than a noisy tractor. “It’s so much fun,â€? he says. “Getting on a tractor is a chore.â€? But like Davidoff, working with animals creates in him a deeper connection that echoes the words of the late writer and priest Thomas Berry: “We have to get beyond the artiďŹ cial division we’ve created between the human community and the rest of the planet. There is only one community, and it lives and dies as a unit. Any harm done to the natural world diminishes the human world because the human world depends on the natural world.â€? That may seem fairly obvious, but it’s easy to lose sight of that connection given the distance most of us have between the source of our food and ultimately the natural world at large. In a small way, New Family Farm is attempting to bridge that gap. “The further we distance ourselves from our friends and allies in the natural world, the less human we become,â€? says Power. “In some ways, hanging out with just humans makes us less human. Farming and growing your own food closes the loop.â€?