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CAM Strawberry Fields Strain Review: A 32% THC House Cross With Nothing to Do With the Strain You've Heard Of
There's a decades-old strawberry-patch legend called Strawberry Fields. CAM's version is an unrelated house cross — Red Pop × Cookies & Cream — and current batches are testing at 32% THC.
By The Crushed Desk · 3d ago · 4 min read
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THC
29–32%
Type
Hybrid
Lineage
Red Pop × Cookies & Cream — a proprietary CAM cross, distinct from the older East Coast 'Strawberry Fields' folklore strain
Terpenes
Limonene, Caryophyllene, Myrcene
There's an old strawberry-patch legend in East Coast cannabis lore — a strain called Strawberry Fields, said to have been grown for years in actual strawberry fields in Vermont, genetics unknown, more folklore than documented cultivar at this point. There's also a separate, unrelated Strawberry Fields bred by Crockett Family Farms. CAM's version is neither. It's a proprietary house cross — Red Pop into Cookies & Cream, according to CAM's own retail copy — built and grown entirely within the brand's Sacramento operation, sharing a name with two strains it has no genetic connection to.
That's worth knowing before you go looking for a deep lineage history, because there isn't one to find outside CAM's own catalog. What CAM does have is one of the largest rotating strain libraries in California flower — 80-plus cuts moving through the brand's indoor rooms at any given time — and Strawberry Fields is one of the fruit-forward entries that's carved out steady shelf space in that rotation, sold through CAM's Big Buds hand-selected tier.
The jar earns the name on smell alone: dense, frosty buds carrying real strawberry sweetness, a creamy vanilla note underneath, and a subtle cookie-batter edge that gives away the Cookies & Cream half of the cross. It opens uplifted and engaged before easing into a calm, steady body relaxation — closer to an afternoon strain than a knockout.
Current Big Buds batches are testing at 32% THC, among the stronger numbers in CAM's current lineup and well above what a strain leaning this hard into a dessert flavor profile usually needs to bring to the table.
If you've written off 'Strawberry Fields' because you tried a version that didn't live up to the name, this isn't that version — it's CAM's own cross, and the potency backs up the flavor.
The verdict
Not the East Coast strawberry-patch legend — CAM's own Red Pop × Cookies & Cream house cross, testing at 32% THC with real strawberry-and-vanilla flavor behind the name.
Sources
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