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Organizing is best done with the right containers.

When it’s harvest time — which can be early or late in the year depending on what you’re growing — there are plenty of great containers available to do the right job for gathering, harvesting, canning, pickling and much, much more.

You know what a box, tub or basket looks like, but what about these: Do you know your bushels and your pecks? How about a barrel and a heap?

An old song goes

“I love you, a bushel and a peck,
  a bushel and a peck and a hug around your neck,
a hug around your neck and a barrel and a heap,
  a barrel and a heap and I’m talking in my sleep, about you …” 

Well, here’s the answer!

Three units of capacity of fruits and grains are in the words to the song.  What are they?

     • a peck is 8 dry quarts;
     • a bushel is 4 pecks or 32 dry quarts;
     • a barrel is 105 dry quarts;
     • a heap is an informal unit meaning a lot

If they’ll get you a “hug around the neck” I’d be learning about and using them really fast!!

I love bushel baskets! Happy Heaps of Harvesting!