The Lewisburg Farmers Market is a busy place in the summer, but vendors say January is a slow time of year.
"Your sales really go down. For some vendors, you don't even meet your rent," said Carlos Perez of I Love Hot Sauce Company.
To help beat the winter blues and raise money for a good cause, some vendors put together a hot-wing eating contest. There were five timed rounds.
"Each time they go through the process, it's going to get hotter and hotter. They'll start with one wing at the beginning, then go to about five wings at the end," Jason Letteer of The Breaking Bread Company of Milton said.
The sauce was made using Carolina Reaper peppers.
"It's about two million Scovilles and above, so that's pretty hot," Perez said.
"It's not so much the flavor; the flavor was delicious. The wings were amazing. The hot sauce was really good, but the after-effects are what gets you. My legs are still shaking," Orlando Rodriguez of Muncy said.
Rodriguez won the competition and $100.
"It burns. It was rough. Respect to everybody who took part in it because it is not easy. It is super-hot," Rodriguez said.
The real winner was the Union-Snyder Hunger Coalition, which feeds families in Union and Snyder Counties. All proceeds from the event went to that group.
"Hunger Coalition, with the times of today, I think people need that little bit of help with food and help out," Letteer said.
Organizers say they plan to host this event again next year.