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Kiyokawa Family Orchards
Kiyokawa Family Orchards is a Japanese-American family fruit operation in Parkdale, OR (Hood River Valley), farming since 1911 — the Kiyokawas were among the few Japanese-American Hood River families to return and rebuild after WWII internment at Tule Lake. Today: 125+ apple varieties plus pears, Asian pears, cherries, and stone fruit, farm stand, and the Hood River Valley's largest U-Pick.
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What they do
Kiyokawa Family Orchards is a four-generation Japanese-American family orchard in Parkdale, Oregon, on the southern edge of the Hood River Valley. Founded in 1911 by Riichi Kiyokawa, who joined the wave of Japanese immigration to Hood River and built one of the orchards that came to define the valley’s fruit industry, the operation today cultivates 125+ apple varieties plus pears, Asian pears, cherries, and stone fruit, fed by glacier-melt water off Mt. Hood. Distribution runs through an on-site [[farm-stand|farm stand]] selling fruit, honey, jams, and cider, and through what is now the Hood River Valley’s largest U-Pick. [[the-orchard|The orchard]] is currently led by Randy Kiyokawa, the third generation.
Why it’s listed
Three substantive filters. Lineage-authorized: an unbroken 110+ years of family stewardship of the same orchard — the kind of long-arc continuity [[directory|the directory]] tracks under cultural-care work. Internment survivor: the family was forcibly relocated to Tule Lake under the 1942 Exclusion Order and was among the few Hood River Japanese-American families to return after the war and rebuild on their land, when most Issei and Nisei did not. Heirloom germplasm preservation: 125+ apple varieties under active cultivation is a meaningful genetic library, not a marketing claim. The combination is rare and historically substantive.
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- Instance of: [[orchard]]
- Contained by: [[willamette-valley]]
- Founded by: [[riichi-kiyokawa]]
- Survived: [[japanese-american-internment]]
- Preserves: [[heirloom-apple-varieties]]
- Operates: [[u-pick]] · [[farm-stand]]
Sources
- Kiyokawa Family Orchards website
- OPB — “This family created an apple ‘paradise’ in the shadow of Mount Hood” (Feb 2025)
- OPB — “[[the-evergreen|The Evergreen]]: In Oregon’s Hood River Valley, this Japanese American family has grown apples for more than a century” (Mar 2025)
- 1859 Oregon’s Magazine — Kiyokawa Family Orchards
- Ecotrust — Fruit, family, and foundations: Kiyokawa Family Orchards
- OpenStreetMap entry
Related concepts: [[farm]], [[orchard]], [[japanese-american-internment]], [[lineage-authorized]].
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