Families in the network grow cocoa on the plots of land and forests around their homes, using traditional farming methods including organic composting, tree pruning, replanting and multiple cropping. Most families are also growing spices (cardamom, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, black pepper) on their plots and various products for self-consumption. Planting and harvesting are often aligned with lunar cycles and the Mayan calendar.  

The cacao productive plots that the producing families have designed are an agroforestry system that integrates the symbiosis of multiple plants that interrelate with each other from their different strata (soil-plant-environment). A cacao plot provides multiple ecosystem services that families, animal diversity and the environment can take advantage of.  The diversity present in the cacao plots is magical, each cacao plot has its own design and identity.  Among the plants that we can see within the cacao plots are: cacao (as the main crop), mother cocoa, plantain, banana, kala, cardamom, black pepper, vanilla, mahogany, cedar, copal, among other timber trees, fruit trees and medicinal plants.