And some 200 years after it was founded, the music goes on. As does the worship and the importance of agriculture. Agriculture in the form of gardens. Mission life revolved around these gardens. At the mission and the San Juan Bautista State Historic Park the gardens were and are a center of activity.
Care is taken via research and nurturing to maintain the gardens with vintage plants.
Visitors to the mission can see the same fruits, flowers, herbs and animals that would have inhabited this mission in its early days. This mission is also unique for its location. It was founded along the San Andreas Fault, the most visible earthquake scar on the planet. And here at San Juan Bautista it intersects with the history of California missions and agriculture.