Up on Hawthorn Hill by Richard deRosa: While popping beans from the vine, thoughts come to mind Thoreau was determined to know beans well. Over the past several days I, too, have come to know beans well, black beans that is. We harvested our first black bean crop last week, hung the plants in the barn to finish up the drying process (too much rain to leave them in the ground), and are now popping the hard black beans out…