One cannot overstate the immense influence of the colonial period’s contribution to the agricultural industry in California. The movement and redeployment of domesticated plants and animals between the Old and New World was one of the most important consequences of the colonizing of California and the west. Even wine production began with the introduction of vines from Spain. The introduction of many adaptive plant species from Spain, as well as the cultivation of crops native to California and the indigenous peoples framed the work that began at the missions and spread to a new industry.