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Tl GLOBE STAFF FILE PHOTOJOANNE KAI HE Verrill Farm makes good use of its fresh and tasty asparagus, in lasagna (above), soup, and quiche. the supermarket. Then it's time for questions. "Do they grow asparagus in California?" someone asks. Is it lunchtime yet? As people linger, taking camera-phone pictures of themselves with the asparagus and gathering gluttonous armloads, Sauce heads back to the farm stand to beat the rush.

We gleefully load up on rhubarb, radishes, and chard and miss the first of Hamersley's cooking demonstrations, of asparagus soup. It's just as well. When tastes are served at the communal picnic tables, the soup is surprisingly bad, mushy gray-green chunks stewed in dishwater. But the second dish Hamersley prepares, a raw asparagus salad with creamy, tangy dressing, makes us forget the soup what soup? The salad is perfect, a crisp burst of contrasting flavors. We try to finagle seconds from one of the servers, who gives us the eye.

That's OK; there's plenty of food at the asparagus buffet, prepared by Verrill chefs Kevin Carey and Guida Ponte. The line moves slowly, but there's a band to keep us entertained. The mandolin player rips through Petula Clark, and the women behind us chime in: "Downtown!" The bass player looks like she has a past; she strums soulfully and gazes into the middle distance. When we reach the buffet, we find asparagus soup, asparagus lasagna, asparagus quiche, and lemonade. The food is filling, tasty, and unpretentious.

It's served on paper plates. Our palates rejuvenated, complimentary bundles of asparagus in hand, these Fresh Air kids are ready to return home. Downtown! Verrill Farm, 11 HTweler Road, Concord, 978-369-4494; vcww.verrillfarm The asparagus celebration is $15 per person. Call or check the website for tn-fiyrmation on upcoming ei-ents. MPi mi -I' ii ii mm iiji in ii ii i i.i il i in i.

iiiiMiiii ii ii i u.iii in i ii il -MMnHlhrtlrflffl corfirming yesterday that he and Midge Ure GlOBt SIAI-I- PH0 1 0tVAN RICHMAN the Civil War song, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again." The song "Running to Stand Still" was dedicated, without sarcasm, to the men and women of the US military. It was followed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights scrolled on a video screen, leading to a thunderous "Pride (In the Name of Love)," a tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Bono, who often walked on a circular ramp extending halfway onto the floor (he also briefly played a drum out there), took the main set home with the spiritual exaltation of "Where the Streets Have No Name" and "One," which was prefaced by a poignant speech on the need to eradicate poverty and alleviate Third World debt. The first encore was "The Fly" (also not played on Tuesday), followed later by another new insertion, "Original of the Species," from the latest album, "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb." Most of the show had songs from Tuesday, but the few changes helped sharpen the focus of an already transcendently compiled program. Openers Kings of Leon slammed through an uncompromising set of primitive, muleskinner rock with great energy and swagger.

Bob Geldof, Live Aid founder, Music Review U2 With: Kings of Leon At: the FleetCenter, last night (second of three shows) had polled the crowd right then and there, they might have said they already had their money's worth. I can't remember another band taking their fans higher after only four songs. The upbeat tone was furthered by "Beautiful Day," before Bono launched a long rap about how Boston was not just "the city of Aerosmith and the Cars," but was filled with "smart people who believe in the future, who have faith in the future." In introducing the song "Miracle Drug," he talked about how Boston is known for its medical community and that "God inspires scientists and nurses." He spoke more openly about God last night than he has in quite a while onstage and later he talked about religious leaders from Jesus to Mohammed and how they were "all sons of Abraham." Oh yes, and then they rocked. An antiwar theme ran through a powerful segue from punk-rocking "Sunday Bloody Sunday" to the heavy-metal-drenched "Bullet the Blue Sky," as Bono, draped in a white bandana, touchingly added verses from The Edge (left) and Bono delivered memorable, impassioned rock at the FleetCenter last night. U2 even more powerful in second show By Devra First GLOBE STAFF CONCORD Sometimes Sauce feels jaded.

Enough with the hip bistros and trendy cafes, the white linen and red wine. It's time for a palate cleanser, something served Sauce on a paper plate in a green setting. And so on a recent Saturday, a bit peaked from the long city winter, we decide to pile into the car and take a trip to the country. Well, Concord, at least. We've been deprived of truly fresh produce for so long that we're developing scurvy, and Verrill Farm is hosting its annual asparagus celebration.

This means an excursion to the field where the stalks are grown, followed by a cooking demo from chef Gordon Ha-mersley and an outdoor lunch involving plenty of just-plucked asparagus. We look at it as getting back to our roots: Much of our favorite local restaurant fare traces its beginnings to the farm, which supplies the likes of Oleana, Rialto, Craigie. Street Bistrot, and No. 9 Park, in addition to Ha-mersley's Bistro. The Verrill farmers are as obsessed with seasonal dining as Sauce is, and the asparagus celebration is followed by a strawberry festival, a blueberry pancake breakfast, a corn and tomato festival, and so on through the growing season.

With all that eating on the horizon, even the bone-chilling day and ominous clouds can't squelch our enthusiasm. Plus, we're extra-caffeinated. An eclectic crowd of more than 100 assembles beneath the tents on the lawn. There's a genial older man in a sport coat and baseball cap; his companion's chignon is adorned with what appears to be a loofah. Both model London Fogs.

Another woman is decked out in Pepto-pink lipstick, rock star sunglasses, and an elaborately compiled pouf of hair. And then there's the guy in the rust-colored jodhpurs and knee-high leather boots. What could these people possibly have in common? Asparagus and nice cars. Farmer-owner Steve Verrill gives us directions to the asparagus beds 3 miles down the road, and a steady line of Mercedes and Lexus models snakes its way there to park beside a field that smells strongly of manure. Indeed, Verrill informs us, there are 100 tons of the stuff beneath our feet.

As he talks pest management and planting depth, we marvel at the emerging asparagus and break off a few spears to sample. It tastes almost like sugar snap peas, far superior to the bundles that sit on ice at By Steve Morse GLOBE STAFF U2 may be peaceniks, but they have a warrior mentality onstage. They were even more potent last night than they were at Tuesday's FleetCenter debut. The sound was better, the playing more impassioned, Bono's raps were more cohesive, and a few notable changes in the song sequence sent this show straight to the A-list of U2 memories. An air of excitement was building early because U2 revealed backstage that it will perform at the just-confirmed 20th anniversary of Live Aid in London on July 2.

"We're looking forward to it. We defi-nitely want to be a part of it," said bassist Adam Clayton, adding that the group has a show in Vienna that night, but would play earlier in the day. Blastoff at the FleetCenter came with the same three songs from Tuesday a surging "City of Blinding Lights" (with huge curtains of LED lights dropped from the overheard rigging), a bone-crunching "Vertigo and tribal, call-and-response vocals with the crowd on "Elevation," as Bono addressed the fans as "sexy people." Then came a song the band didn't play Tuesday the euphoric "Gloria," sung with a gospel vigor and enhanced by The Edge on vocal harmonies. Frankrv, if you i..