Relier Pairs N.E. Economies/ResourcesVersion en ligne Match economies and the natural resources. par Lonnie Adams 1 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... 2 Good ports 3 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. 4 Rocky Soil 5 Timber 6 Atlantic Ocean 7 The long winters and mild summers led to shipbuilding because... look to the ocean for year round food source such as fishing/whaling. Shipbuilding there was not a lot of food grown and there was not a surplus of crops. Subsistence Farming Fishing this climate allowed strong and tall trees like oak and pine trees to flourish. Trading