The Kiiskinen family started growing strawberries at the beginning of the 1920's in Suonenjoki, situated in the heart of Savo. The first plants came from America through a neighbour, and were planted in the farm of Petos. This was the beginning of the family's story as the first professional strawberry growers in Finland. Strawberry growing expanded to Central Finland in 1977, when Anja Kiiskinen started a strawberry farm in Maso, Tikka. From Maso, the strawberry plants were transferred to Ruusula in 1980.

When the Kiiskinen family began strawberry growing in Savo, Ruusula was separated from a military compound as a crofter's cottage. Ruusula was a cattle and grain farm until the 1980's when the cornflower fields were changed into verdant strawberry rows. A road to the island of Kuusisaari was built in 1995, which was also the year when wine making began in Ruusula. At the beginning of the new century Ruusula experienced a change of generations and now has a new, young manageress.