Fitzgerald Farm

05/25/2026

Looking forward to getting back to the market!

05/25/2026

05/20/2026

Turning dirt!

05/20/2026

Pumpkin patch plow day 2026 was a success!

05/20/2026

Preparing the patch for this seasons harvest!

05/19/2026

Happy 78th birthday Mike Fitzgerald Sr.! Wishing you a great year!

05/16/2026

Who knew?

Why Irish Hair Goes Silver First

☘️ If you have Irish ancestry and your hair started going grey earlier than everyone around you, earlier than your doctor said it should, earlier than felt fair, your MC1R gene was not failing you. It was finishing something it started a very long time ago.

Irish and Celtic populations carry elevated rates of MC1R variants that affect not just hair color but the longevity of melanocyte activity, the cellular process responsible for producing pigment in the hair follicle. In Irish hair the melanocytes begin their natural decline earlier than in most other populations. The hair does not go grey because something is wrong. It goes grey because the pigment production that was always running at a different frequency simply winds down on a different timeline.

The same gene that gives Irish hair its red and auburn tones, that makes Irish skin translucent and reactive, that affects pain thresholds and light sensitivity, is the gene that determines when your hair decides it is finished with color. It is a whole body signature running on a single instruction set.

Your mother went grey early. Her mother before her. You watched it happen and told yourself you would be different and then one morning you were exactly the same, standing in the same light, looking at the same silver beginning at the same place it always begins in Irish women, at the temples, where the thinking happens.

That is not aging. That is your bloodline arriving right on schedule.

Tag an Irish woman who went silver earlier than she expected and never looked more herself, and follow The Irish Remembered. ☘️

04/19/2026

FYI.

Hope those in the area aren't too deeply impacted by this.

And right when Kenoza was finally starting to rise a bit. 😥