Relacionar Columnas N.E. Economies/ResourcesVersión en línea Match economies and the natural resources. por 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 The long winters and mild summers led to shipbuilding because... 5 Atlantic Ocean 6 Timber 7 Rocky Soil 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. Trading look to the ocean for year round food source such as fishing/whaling. Fishing Shipbuilding Subsistence Farming