Our story.

Welcome! My name is Clifton Richey, and I go by Clif. I am the proud owner of Harvest House Provisions (HHP), since 2019. Harvest House Provisions is a fourth generational company within the produce industry that will greatly benefit you and your business with our unmatched knowledge, value, quality, and with the highest integrity.

I’d love to share a little bit about my family’s background. Milton Cutting, my Great Grandfather, propagated in 1922, what’s called, The Wide Leaf Watercress, in which we eat in many dishes TODAY! During many of Milton’s strolls in nature, he found this wide leaf vegetable growing wild along the creek beds around the Spring and Jennings area in Cleveland, OH. This find of Milton’s would be the creation of the Family Greenhouse Business! This very greenhouse was one of the original greenhouses that was built in Cleveland, OH. Throughout the years, this glass greenhouse expanded to grow tomatoes and cucumbers on four acres of land. Several decades later, a second glass greenhouse was built on another four acres in Columbia Station, OH. At this time, my Grandfather, Clifton Cutting (Milton’s Son), was managing and growing tomatoes, cucumbers and leaf lettuce on a total of eight acres in these glass greenhouses.

In 1974, my Grandfather, Clifton, and father, James Richey, were forced to make the difficult decision to sell the family business, due to the fuel crisis.

My father, James, then founded his produce company, Harvest House Distribution, in 1974. He serviced a variety of different restaurants, hotels, country clubs and hospitals, all within the large geographical area of Cleveland, OH. While working side-by-side with my father, it is because of him that I have an unparalleled work ethic and strive for the highest quality, no matter the circumstances.

In 1999, my father passed away. My mother then sold Harvest House Distribution.

In 2000, I moved to the Columbus, OH area. I took a position to be a manager, and then General Manager for two great, local produce companies. I later resigned from the last produce company, thinking that I was going to retire. Well, that did not happen! I just couldn’t! After 43 years of being in the produce industry, it became a true passion of mine!

In 2019, my wife and I decided to establish Harvest House Provisions. The ability to bring back my father’s business name, and to be able to carry our family’s passion on for four generations is truly a gift, and I am so grateful to be able to do so.

Here we are today, proudly servicing many eateries of all kinds, with the FRESHEST produce possible, in central OHIO!

Please know this; if it will not go on my table at home, I will not take it to your establishment - This is a promise!

Thank you,

The Harvest House Family