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Our Orchard Kitchen in Hood River, Oregon

Page reviewed 05/18/2026

Fernhollow Drop Kitchen is a family candy kitchen at the edge of the Hood River valley pear orchards. We make one kind of thing: old-fashioned hard candy drops in the orchard and botanical flavors that filled American candy counters when we were kids.

Why we make candy this way

We grew up with a cut-glass dish on the sideboard and a paper sack from the five-and-dime. When those flavors grew hard to find, we bought a copper kettle and an antique brass drop roller and taught ourselves to bring them back, a few pounds at a time.

What we believe

Small batches taste better. A gift tin should be worth keeping after the candy is gone. And a piece of candy should be able to take you straight back to a porch swing in 1968.

Write to the kitchen

Tell us the occasion and the flavors you remember, and we will write back with current batches and tin ideas for holidays, care packages, retirement parties and corporate thank-you gifts.