Stop by any activity or event on SUNY Sullivan’s campus, and there’s a good chance you’ll encounter student leader Nichole Connal.

With a crop of field pea cover down on some beds and black plastic covering others to prevent erosion, Hope Farm, the three-acre organic farm on SUNY Sullivan’s campus, is ready for winter.

Art Riegal, who teaches business courses for the Catskill Hospitality Institute at SUNY Sullivan, and Tofowa Pyle ’21, a student in the College’s Green Building Technology Program, recently spent several hours winterizing Sullivan’s hives to help protect and keep them healthy this winter.