Joe Seltzner’s farm has seen four decades of transformation, rooted in family legacy and shaped by change. In 1980, his father started farming the land with little more than a barn, a house, and a few tractors. He sold it to Joe and his wife two decades later. Since then, the house has been expanded four times, a new one built nearby, and nearly every original building is gone. What was once a humble start with chickens and corn cribs is now a 350-acre operation bordering the ever-encroaching city of Sun Prairie. Joe knows development pressure is closing in, but he’s holding fast. If the farm is ever sold, he dreams of starting fresh, somewhere quieter. Still, his favorite memory remains simple: his grandfather, handing out apples from his pocket after a long day baling straw.