potatoes, apples, corn, beans, squash, and tobacco
berries
farm grow crops
they grow crops
lumber and crops
potatoes
Greenhouse plant and sweet corn.
Colonial life in Rhode Island was hard. Winters were harsh. The soil was rocky, and poor. It was not well suited to growing crops.
They farmed corn and stuff like that.
Corn, beans and squash which were typical Native American fare. Sweet corn is still a major Rhode Island farm crop.
It was full of forests and rich soil for crops.
See the links below.
Tobacco was grow in Rhode Island because the climate was not very wet. The tobacco had been introduced by James Rolfe to Jamestown and all of the colonies except for the Carolinas and Georgia began growing it as a cash crop.