Ah, springtime in Bedminster, NJ. Winter horse blankets have been cleaned and stowed. Peekytoe crab and sauteed ramps are in season in the town’s finest restaurant. Over at the golf course, the flower beds are planted, the greens brushed and rolled.

And the Secret Service snipers have scoped out their positions around the clubhouse and Presidential Villa.

With the leader of the free world poised to turn the posh Trump National Golf Club-Bedminster into his “Summer White House,” neighbors and members are bracing for an onslaught of news trucks, security checkpoints, traffic jams and rifle-toting dudes with earpieces.

Don’t get them wrong — many here love President Trump.

They’re proud that he’s chosen their leafy, horsey, pricey burg as his weekend getaway. They’re honored that world events may be determined within the confines of their 26-square-mile community.

But this is Bedminster — overwhelmingly Republican, privileged and so deep in horse country that it’s not uncommon in the fall months to see fox hounds bounding through the newly mown hayfields, pursued by riders in jaunty red dressage coats.

So if crowds of liberal protesters start crowding the hedgerows, the Trump-love could fade quickly.

“I have a message for the president: We are extremely flattered that he chose Bedminster as his Camp David,” longtime resident Zaheer Jan, 86, said.

“But please, please, think of the people,” the retired engineer said.

“I wouldn’t want anybody to have this conversation: ‘I have to get home. I have to go shopping. My mother is sick,’ and hear in reply, ‘Sorry, the president is here. You can’t go.’ ”

Back when he was merely “The Donald,” members of Trump’s 500-acre golf club were used to the billionaire developer’s jovial presence. They say Trump, who has owned it since 2002, would call to say hello — and to remind them to renew their memberships.

Even during Trump’s candidacy, the security vibe was mellow.

“There was one Secret Service agent parked in the dessert room last year, so it was really not intrusive at all back then,” Catherine Rossi, 50, said of meeting Trump at the club during a Mother’s Day 2016 brunch.

Trump himself chatted her up. “These shrimp are amazing,” he told her. “I said, ‘I’m really rooting for you and I watch every single rally.’ And he basically said, ‘They don’t show the crowds on TV.’ ”

The club’s 1930s, Georgian-style clubhouse is home to a 5,000-square-foot ballroom with crystal chandeliers and a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the lush, manicured grounds.

The walls are decorated with framed photos, including a massive Trump family portrait, and a spiral staircase leads to a patio bar built of dark granite and cherry wood.

Sunday’s Mother’s Day brunch was to die for, as befits a place with initiation fees of $75,000 to $350,000. The main course offered prime rib, sliced beef tenderloin, poached lobster, seared black cod, salmon à la plancha or sauteed chicken breast.

Rossi described a bounty of chilled seafood that served as the backdrop when she met Trump last year.

“It was a huge table and the left side is a huge mound of shrimp cocktail and the right side is a huge mound of king crab legs,” she remembered.

“I don’t eat crab but I wanted to talk to him, so I figured I’ll just grab some crab legs; my dad will eat it.”

This summer, though, sidling up to President Trump at the shrimp table will be tactically trickier.

Township officials expect Trump will stay seven weekends in 2017.

On the first weekend in May, the club was crawling with Secret Service agents as he visited.

At Bedminster Pizza, employee Enzo Grande was serving 15 to 20 agents a day over Trump’s three-day weekend.

Back at the club, entrants were subject to random pat-downs and metal checks — even in the middle of their golf rounds.

“A member told me he was wanded three times during the game,” Rossi said. “But he was kind of right next to [Trump,] playing golf.”

Trump paid some $35 million to buy the property in Bedminster, which has about 8,300 residents with a median household income of $96,644.

The site had been owned by the late automaker John DeLorean, famed for the gull-winged, stainless-steel sports car featured in “Back to the Future.” But DeLorean lost the sprawling estate to bankruptcy following the failure of his auto empire and his acquittal in a cocaine-trafficking sting.

Trump hired famed golf-course designer Tom Fazio to create the older of the club’s two sets of links, which is rated No. 80 in the nation by Golfweek magazine and No. 83 by Golf magazine.

In July, the course will be the site of the US Women’s Open Championship, and the PGA Championship will be played there in 2022.

In addition to turning the estate’s 25-room mansion into the clubhouse, Trump built a series of cottages around a heated, 25-meter pool, two hot tubs and deck area.

He recently got permission to add a 500-square-foot, two-story balcony and porch to the cottage that now serves as his Presidential Villa.

His eldest daughter and White House adviser, Ivanka, also has a cottage for her family that in 2015 was approved for a 2,200-square-foot expansion.

Bedminster’s 16-member police force is expecting to make close to $300,000 in overtime, to be reimbursed, the town hopes, by the federal government. That’s a bargain, considering it costs $150,000 a day for extra security at Manhattan’s Trump Tower.

In 2009, Ivanka married Jared Kusher, now the White House director of American innovation, in a lavish ceremony at the club.

Their 500 guests included Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Barbara Walters, ex-New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. Cuomo, then the state’s attorney general.

Following his unexpected presidential win, Trump used the clubhouse to interview potential Cabinet members, including failed 2012 Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.

Before his election, Trump was able to land his private helicopter on the grounds of the golf course, but the “Marine One” helicopter that carries the president is too large and had to be landed at nearby Somerset Airport after ferrying Trump from Manhattan for his visit earlier this month.

A local official described Trump as “the town’s biggest landowner and biggest taxpayer,” with his club shelling out about $400,000 in property taxes last year.

But Trump was revealed to use a “farmland assessment” to slash his tax bill — by devoting 113 acres to hay production and a herd of eight goats.

Data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal suggested that the move, combined with another hay-growing operation at another Trump golf course in Colts Neck, NJ, helped him pay less than $1,000 a year on land that would otherwise cost $80,000 in taxes.

Meanwhile, to many locals, Trump remains a hero — with benefits.

Bedminster’s 16-member police force is expecting to make close to $300,000 in overtime, to be reimbursed, the town hopes, by the federal government. That’s a bargain, considering it costs $150,000 a day for extra security at Manhattan’s Trump Tower — even when the president isn’t there.

And Bedminster Pizza’s owner, Michael Pannia, 41, is hoping for more visits by hungry Secret Service agents — and maybe Trump himself.

“He used to say [we had] ‘the best meatballs,’ ” Pannia said proudly.

“I love that he’s here . . . It’s the second-most powerful man in the world. I’d say the pope is first.”

Additional reporting by Selim Algar