In Pioneer times, the harvest was the best time of the year. Families stacked their produce on tables that literally groaned from the weight of canned or dried snap beans, fruits, tomatoes, pickles and minces. These were the foods that would see them through the long and sometimes bitterly cold winters of a vast, new continent.
Today, a harvest dining table recalls that abundance, especially at certain times of the year like Thanksgiving. Though a harvest table can be many styles, it is most likely to be Early American; that is, Colonial, Primitive, Pennsylvania Dutch or Shaker, which are all fairly utilitarian types of furniture whose focus is on durability rather than elegance.
At Erik Organic, the Harvest dining table has been reinterpreted in a long, narrow rectangle that provides optimum seating. Crafted in sturdy maple, the wood of choice of cabinetmakers and wood flooring experts, the Harvest Dining Table is also available in equally durable dark (mahogany) or light (cinnamon) oak, hickory, or walnut. In fact, you can have the Harvest Dining Table crafted in any of the 70 hardwood choices the company offers, and in sizes ranging from the 70” x 32” table shown up to 140” long and 48” wide.
The choice of wood is purely a personal preference, since all of Erik Organic’s hardwoods are sustainably grown, harvested, cut to specific dimensions, then dried – first by hand and then in a kiln, to insure that the moisture content is low. This method insures that the lumber used in our furniture will not later warp or crack, ruining a finely crafted item of furniture.
