A teenager from Green Moor has proved she is a natural at an ancient country art.
Jenny Watts, 18, of Well Hill cottages, won the novice section of the Yorkshire Hedge Laying Society competition in Ripon.
Hedge laying is the old country skill of 'cutting and folding over' hedges to make a neat looking 'fence' to keep animals in their fields or paddocks.
Former Penistone Grammar School pupil Jenny said: "It's an old tradition they're bringing back because people realised metal fencing isn't as economical and doesn't look as interesting."
Jenny, who is studying environmental conservation on an apprenticeship in Stocksbridge as part of the Steel Valley project, was the youngest person in the competition and beat off 12 other contenders.
She said: "I learned hedge laying on a course one day at work but the first day I tried it the course leader asked me to go and work for him."
Her ambition now is to start her own hedge laying company, looking after her local countryside and then around the UK.
