I've got to tame the farrago that is my garage.

Farrago comes from the Latin word 'far', which referred to spelt, a type of grain.  That term then was used to form the word 'farrago', which meant  mixed fodder, or  cattle feed from a mixture of grains.    It was then adop ted to Englished in the mid 17th century (1600s) to mean a mixture of different things or a powdery substance.  The earliest evidence of the word farrago is from 1637, in the writings of Ben Jonson, a poet and playwright.  

The recent Secret Author contest is a farrago of different styles and author interpretations of the theme 'Hidden'.