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