Relocated to San Antonio in 1731, Mission San Juan Capistrano developed into a productive agricultural and craft community for its Coahuiltecan residents. A 1767 government inspection described its inhabitants as industrious and skilled in "all kinds of labor," running cloth-making operations, carpentry shops, and forges largely on their own initiative, alongside ironworking and hide processing. Beyond the compound walls, irrigated fields fed by acequia water produced corn, beans, squash, peppers, sweet potatoes, and sugar cane, while orchards and gardens yielded melons and peaches. The mission's associated ranch, Rancho de Pataguilla, ran large herds, by 1762 numbering roughly 3,500 sheep along with comparable cattle, supplying meat, wool, and hides to nearby settlements and presidios and making San Juan a regional supplier of agricultural goods along the El Camino de los Tejas trade corridor. This blend of farming, ranching, and craft production sustained the mission community through the eighteenth century before later secularization and decline. In recent years the site has revived its agricultural identity: a working demonstration farm, operated in partnership with the San Antonio Food Bank, cultivates crops along the mission's historic acequia much as it did centuries ago, donating produce to those in need. The mission church remains an active place of worship, and the National Park Service maintains the grounds as part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, where visitors can walk the farm fields, orchard, and restored acequia.