I live in central maine. I dont have all that fancy equipment yet. I have John Deere 410b back hoe/ loader. I used the front loader and pulled all the stumps and weeds, to a nice flat dirt base. Then i took the back hoe and fluffed the soil. It took a little while but looks good. then I plan on dragging the plots with my four wheeler. Then the rest im going to have to do by hand.
I was just worried about the ground being so dry, we havent had much rain this year,