exactly 1 minute ago i had absolutely no idea what the plants sesame seeds and peanuts came from look like and i am shocked and surprised
for some reason every time I see pineapples growing I laugh out loud. Like, the punchline is it’s a pineapple!!!!!!!!! it’s a pineapple
An Interesting Fact About Peanuts, while we’re on the topic of food-plants:
Peanuts-you-eat grow underground, but they are NOT part of the peanut plant’s roots. Peanut plants are ambitious little fuckers and plant their seeds themselves. They flower like any perfectly reasonable legume, but once the flowers have been pollinated the plants do something called “pegging” (no really), in which they drill the stems where the flowers used to be into the ground. And that’s where the peanuts you eat form. Like so:
The NDP has promised to develop a national strategy for postpartum mental health if they form government, party leader Jagmeet Singh told an advocacy group on Monday. It’s a sorely-lacking strategy that could improve the lives of new mothers across the country, according to the Canadian Perinatal Mental Health Collaborative.
Eleven years ago, when co-founder Patricia Tomasi was pregnant for the first time, none of her doctors talked to her about mental health, she told HuffPost Canada. The Barrie, Ont. mom of two had struggled with anxiety and depression in her past, which she said she now realizes should have been a red flag. But the topic was never discussed.
After her first daughter was born, Tomasi started behaving irrationally, she recalled. After a long depressive period, her mood shifted suddenly. Her mind started racing, cycling through all kinds of bizarre ideas. She spoke quickly and made impulsive decisions. She had delusions and hallucinations. She quit her job because she thought angels were telling her she should. She ended up losing her house.
