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 Good ports 3 Rocky Soil 4 Atlantic Ocean 5 Timber 6 Short growing season and small farming areas meant that.......... 7 Long winters and the ground would freeze so subsistence farming existed so colonists had to.............. there was not a lot of food grown and there was not a surplus of crops. Trading Subsistence Farming Shipbuilding this climate allowed strong and tall trees like oak and pine trees to flourish. look to the ocean for year round food source such as fishing/whaling. Fishing