Which bed layout should I go for on my 8% sloped land?

I recently just bought 5 acres with my wife and friend in zone 5a upstate NY & we're in the planning stage of our market garden. 2 acres of our land is open with a 8% slope grade, facing West (slightly south). I am debating between normal raised beds for practicality, contour beds for erosion and or terraces for water prevention. See, we're at the bottom of a valley & from being their on and off and hearing stories over the past few months of the land, it seems to be rather wet. We're in the wet season, soo.. but maybe contour and or terracing might be too wet.

My ideal would be contour beds as they're less expensive to make & less effort then terracing. Plus, cmon they do have a vibe to them haha. So what I'm thinking is making pond/s on the land, with swales above to catch that access water & prevent it going heavily into my beds in storms etc.

I've heard that some people even have beds going up and down the slope to prevent waterlogging.

Has anyone here experienced around 8% sloped land in Temperate deciduous / humid continental forest

Contour beds feel like the right call on a wet slope like that. 8% isn't steep enough to need full terracing and you'd spend a fortune building them on 2 acres. I'd want to watch the water flow through a full season before committing to anything permanent though, especially in a valley where the drainage patterns might surprise you.

Hello fellow upstate New Yorker! I'm over in Washington County dreaming of obtaining enough land to eventually make my own market garden.

I suppose my first question I would want to ask before giving a recommendation is what does your soil look like? If you are trying to grow on clay, I would definitely be trying to figure out how to move water without needing to worry about erosion. Sand is quite a bit more forgiving but I sit somewhere closer to a sandy loam in my neck of the woods.

I'd say you are planning on gardening on a rather moderate slope so I'd be worried about eventual erosion. Are you thinking of incorporating tillage into your gardening or something more on the no-till side?