Sovereign Soil Collective

Field Notes

The build, written down as it happens. Markets walked, land pursued, bees kept, an institution taking shape in New Jersey. Written by the founder, Brian M. Forbes, as The Miseducated Blk Man.

A student walks through the marble doorway of a brick dormitory at Phillips Exeter Academy on move-in day
August 31, 2026 · 9 min read

Bigger Dreams

A road trip to drop my niece at school became a strategy session. Exeter, a farm in Massachusetts, a vineyard in Connecticut, and Hercules. Sovereign Soil and the Twelve Labors.

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A vendor under a yellow tent stands behind crates of fresh peaches at a Saturday farmers market
August 22, 2026 · 7 min read

The Woman Who Cut the Peach

A Saturday farmers market, a grower who cut a peach and handed it over before anyone asked, and what food sovereignty looks like when it fits in a parking lot.

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Field Notes is where the work gets written down as it happens: markets, land, bees, the institution taking shape. Get the letters, or reach out if you hold ground in New Jersey.

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