Chest Type Freezer Recos?

I've pretty much decided to get a "small" chest type freezer.
The garden is yielding a decent bounty and probably will be bigger next year with the small adjacent parcel of land we are purchasing. More garden space, plus assorted berries. We are finding local farmers/ranchers who are providing a good source of local meats (beef, pork, lamb and poultry) and just need more freezer space than our side-by-side offers. Anything to minimize the 13 mile round trips to the grocery would be helpful. I'm thinking something like 8 cubic feet should be sufficient for the two of us, but could be wrong about that?
What other features should I be looking for besides something energy efficient?
TIA,
'Winger

I'd say go to Sears: several sizes, reasonable prices. You're smart looking at top-lid freezer chests since they are more efficient than side opening. It always seems, however, that what I want is at the bottom.

We recently swapped out a giant 25 cu-ft chest freezer we had owned for around 35 years when it finally showed signs of giving up the ghost (or rather the refrigerant). Old tech, twice as heavy as modern units and damn nearly killed the guys removing it (it had spread over the years and wouldn't fit through the door without me sawing off a few now protruberant items (not that bad when for awhile I thought I might have to unlimber the chainsaw to enlarge the doorway!).

We decided to go for an upright of more normal stature and have not regretted it. The loss of cold air is greater when you open the door, but we do so seldom enough that it probably makes little difference to power consumption.

You might be better off simply adding another upright unit, assuming it will fit in beside your current freezer. Or you could go for a small chest freezer - Kenmore (Sears) has a bunch of them, but the access issues would remain.

I have always lived with a freezer at home. Mostly they have been chest freezers. The reason for the preference has always been they hold more. I now besides the three freezers portions of my refrigerators I have a small chest and a medium sized upright. For me the advantages to uprights are that things are easier to find and items freeze faster (most units have elements in their shelving). They do seem to frost up faster.

I have found that freezing compartments are like pantries and wine cellars. If you aren't careful you find yourself "warehousing" a lot of "stuff". The best prices on the modest size chest freezers can be found at Sears, Sam's Club, Costco etc.