i mean, it s good to see young people helping out, as well. i and, you know, it s unexpected and very kind and it will come in very useful. next stop, sharing tomatoes with the incredible edible project in todmorden, which grows vegetables in communal areas for anyone to help themselves to. people usually are very happy with what they re receiving. and it s nice to see that, because it s nice to see that when people enjoy something that you ve put work in and you give back to the community. it s nice to know lots of people get some fresh home grown tomatoes out of it. it s nice to see some not so well off people get something that s just really nice and they could work on. i m extremely proud of them, i but i know also that they ve got so much out of it themselves. it s really been enriching for them, i because they see how much it means to them when they do these acts of kindness, how much - it means to people. and it s wonderful- for everybody, really. the charity calder community c
of england. some extremes in that forecast. you might have heard of someone knocking on your front door and delivering flowers but how about a whole tomato plant? that s what s happening in todmorden in west yorkshire, and it s all thanks to two teenage sisters who wanted to help out their neighbours with some random acts of kindness. mark ansell has more. phoebe and mabel have spent months growing 240 tomato plants from seed. now it s time to share the fruits of their labour. heuo. i ve got some tomato plants. thank you so much. it s really lovely to receive this tomato from the young girls and seeing them doing good for the community and dropping off the tomatoes. it s a really good cause, i think. heuo. a tomato plant for you. thank you very much. that s lovely. - fantastic.
they approached me to say can we do something that s not a foodbank, that s not an emergency provision how can we help people to help themselves? so we decided that we could we wanted to grow the tomatoes long enough so that those who are not familiar with growing vegetables could actually see some of the rewards on the plant. the sisters have pledged to continue distributing kindness in the calder valley. mark ansell, bbc news. very impressive. the gift that keeps on giving. we d love to hear if you ve got someone in your community who like phoebe and mabel is carrying out random acts of kindness. maybe it s you. you can tell us all about it on whatsapp and you can still get in touch by email, and on twitter. still to come on today s breakfast.
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