 At Audiology Associates of Prestonsburg, you can live your life the way you want and find the freedom of better hearing. You'll experience patient care that is specific to you with exceptional follow-up care that ensures your hearing and balance needs are being met. Audiology Associates at 1428 Northlake Drive in Prestonsburg. The Kentucky Maple Syrup project will be celebrating Kentucky Maple Day, February 4th. 19 locations across the state will be participating in Kentucky Maple Day, including Southdown Farms, located in Letcher County. So on Southdown Farms, we are Lord willing, hopefully if the weather cooperates, we'll be boiling Maple Syrup right in the evaporator behind us. We'll be giving tours all day long on ATV up into the mountains, take four or five at a time, and actually showing them up in the woods how we collect the sap from the maple trees and bring it all the way down the mountains to this building called the Sugar Shack. Here in the Sugar Shack, of course, this will hopefully be operating. My son will be here explaining this whole process, how this works. In addition, Southdown Farms will have baked goods available for purchase and ice cream topped with maple syrup in honor of Ice Cream for Breakfast Day. One of the reasons I think having the Kentucky Maple Syrup Day is so important for our state is because people really don't know that we can make maple syrup here. And when you think about the maple trees that are in these hills right now, especially in the southeast, where we're all thinking about what to do after coal, these hills are full of maple trees. University of Kentucky in their timber survey says Letcher and surrounding counties have 6.9 million maple trees today ready to tap. And we're here to tell people that they can tap into it too. And the other reason I think it's really important is last year we had two families come through and they were wanting to come and learn about how to do this. And this year they are commercially producing maple syrup. Southdown Farms will be open to the public from 9 to 4 p.m. Feb. 4. To see a full list of participating farms, go to ky-maplesurip.ca.uky.edu. Reporting for Mountain Top News, I'm Brianna Robinson.