Welcome to the Handy Family

Have you met parents that feed their kids super healthy? Mainly raw, home grown produce?  That would describe the Handy family and many of our generations self reliant on their property. Our family roots have been planted for generations in small rural agriculture towns along the Rocky Mountains. These conditions created sound business savy along with a closeness to the soil.

At harvest, we were raised picking, skinning, husking, canning, and freezing our own produce. Milling our own flour. Even to the point of trying to get a year supply of every item that we harvest in a freezer of food storage room.

We experience a closeness to the land and all that is grows on it. Nothing beats the freshly roasted or boiled red potatoes from the garden along with fresh carrots though

Let food remedy

Several of the Handy brothers and father experienced significant skin issues that took many visits to dermatologists, doctors, and nurses before uncovering the root cause. After steriod creams and antibiotics, the skin health would briefly recover than continue to cause us problems. Restleness nights with the itch, days off from work caring for inflammations. Finally, one of the brothers, guided by a medical professional decided to follow the strict elimination diet for 90 days in order to eliminate Gluten, lactose, and refined sugar from the body storage.

Surprisingly, after 90 days, the skin health improved. No itches and rashes covering the body. Slowly food items were reintroduced. Starting with a little yogurt and cheese. Then some dark chocolate. Oh boy, I still remember clearly the relief that I could enjoy those items I had greatly missed. Then came gluten. We don’t claim to know why, but for some reason, when any of us eats gluten, our skin swells up with little itchy blisters, diagnosed as dermatitis herpetiformis, or celiac rash. This discovery has made us prudent eaters and growers. We know and feel the pain from auto-immune responses caused from food. This brother, Lucas, who worked in web development and marketing at a hospital at the time, decided to help his brother Clayton the farmer. Quickly, he realized that more small organic farmers needed help. So HandyFarms.com was created. 

The sking health is just one of the multiple food remedy occurrences that the Handy Family has experienced by carefully selecting food that remedy and relieve our bodies. Another time, more stories may be shared. At that point, when the family invested in Handy Farms, we felt it was a bit more than just a farm. It was our ability to offer high quality food to both our family, and others that experience food restrictions and remedies as we have, to improve our overall wellness. Then partner with like-minded farmers with a similar mission from farmer to buyer across the United States. If you are an organic farmer, experiencing 

It brings me joy…

that I can provide nutrient dense, chemical free, natural, organic, beautiful red walnuts to people who value this type of food grown in this way. I am now teaming up with other small family Farms that value this way of life and grow their food this way. If I find them, I offer some of their goods on our website and tell their story so that you know where your food is coming from.

We will continue to provide regeneratively grown organic nutrient dense food that People can trust. Food that I give to my own wife and kids for continued health and healing from such a toxic world we live in. There is hope, and we are happy to be part of the change that is so desperately needed. May we all continue to be seekers of light and joy and abundant living. God bless.

Clayton Handy

Come Find Us!

Handy Farms is shown below. Our address marker on Google maps should be correct. We are the red walnut orchard directly behind Richfield Elementary School.