What's Still Running on Clarksburg's Olde Noah Hunt Road This Week

Drive down Olde Noah Hunt Road on a late August morning and you will pass two farm driveways within a few hundred feet of each other, the kind of pairing that made an errand easy for years. Berries at one, honey at the other, done before ten a.m. This year only one of those driveways still has a truck in it.

For a long stretch of Clarksburg's calendar, that stopped mattering. Both stops had been there long enough that nobody checked hours before heading out. That habit is worth breaking this week, because the two properties on this road have gone in opposite directions, and knowing which is which saves a wasted trip.

The Farm That Stopped Answering

Earth Friendly Organic Farm sits at 17 Olde Noah Hunt Road on a little over eight acres, built around more than a thousand blueberry bushes along with blackberries, raspberries, and garden vegetables. The property doubled as a bed and breakfast with yoga and tai chi retreats, and it ran on a rooftop solar array installed back in 2011. By the farm's own published harvest calendar, this would ordinarily be blackberry season sliding into the start of raspberry season, the kind of week a regular would plan around.

There is a real question about whether that week still exists here. The farm tracker at pickyourown.org, which calls farms directly to confirm picking conditions before listing them, flagged this exact address in an update dated May 14, 2025, noting that the farm now has zero online presence and marking it as assumed permanently closed. That is not a rumor. It is the kind of detail that only shows up when someone tries to call ahead and gets nothing back. A farm with a Facebook page that goes quiet for a season is common. A working pick-your-own with no digital footprint at all for over a year is not.

If you've had this address in your rotation, treat it as closed until you hear otherwise directly from the property. Don't drive out expecting bushes to pick.

Two Driveways Down, Third Generation Still Extracting

Trapper's Honey, at 9 Olde Noah Hunt Road, is the other half of that old errand, and it is the half still open. The Trapani family has run the operation since 2008, and they describe themselves as third-generation beekeepers extracting straight from their own hives rather than blending or bottling from outside sources. Beyond raw honey, they sell honey sticks, comb honey, beeswax candles, lip balm, and a gourmet honey spread, and their honey has picked up blue ribbons at local fairs along with state-level recognition for best extracted honey.

Here is the part that makes this particular week worth noting instead of any other week in late summer. Trapper's Honey has said that hives set in their blueberry patch produce honey with a natural blueberry note, and that the color and body of the honey shift with the season: light and bright in spring, darker and more full-bodied once fall flowers take over. Late August sits right in that turn. A jar bought this week will not taste like the jar you bought in June, and it won't taste like what you'll find on the shelf in October either. If you want to track that shift the way a lot of longtime Clarksburg households do, this is the window to buy twice, a few weeks apart, and compare.

Two Ways to Turn the Stop Into a Saturday

The honey run works best when it's not the only stop. Two additions turn a five-minute errand into an actual morning, and both are already part of how people in Clarksburg spend a weekend.

Coffee and a sandwich first. Clarksburg General Store, at 456 Stagecoach Road, has been the deli-and-coffee stop for this end of the township for decades, open early enough to catch the breakfast sandwich crowd before most farm stands even open their gates. It is the kind of stop where you run into someone you know, which is part of why it still gets used even by people who could just as easily grab coffee somewhere on Route 33.

A trail after. Two options cover most moods:

• Millstone Park, 4 Red Valley Road, for something short. The Millstone Park Loop is a 1.2-mile gravel path circling a pond where regulars report beaver activity along the water's edge, plus a boat launch and fishing access if you want to linger rather than just walk it and leave.
• Perrineville Lake Park, the 1,455-acre Monmouth County park straddling Millstone and Roosevelt, for something longer. The posted Mine Hill Trail runs 2.5 miles through rolling, tree-covered terrain and tops out at a hilltop overlook that, on a clear day, reaches a view of the New York City skyline roughly fifty miles off. The shorter 1.4-mile Lakeside Loop follows an old farm road along the water if you'd rather keep it easy.

Either trail pairs naturally with the honey stop since both sit within a few minutes' drive of Olde Noah Hunt Road, and neither requires much planning beyond checking the county's posted hours, which shift a few times a year with daylight.

What This Means If Your Weekend Runs Through Clarksburg

The gap between these two driveways says something about how small farms operate in a place like this. Nobody posted a closure notice at Earth Friendly Organic Farm. There was no sale sign, no announcement, just a phone number that stopped getting answered and a website that never got updated. That is how a lot of small agricultural operations end here, quietly, without a formal record anywhere except a farm-tracking site that happened to notice and made a note of it.

It's a useful reminder for anyone whose weekend routine includes a farm stand that's been part of the landscape for years. If a place hasn't posted anything online in a while, a quick call before you drive out saves the trip. Trapper's Honey answering the phone and still bottling seasonal batches is the exception that makes the rule visible.

This same rural texture, working farms tucked next to residential lots, land that changes hands quietly rather than through a listing sign, is a big part of what draws people to Clarksburg in the first place. It's also why properties here tend to move less often than in denser parts of Monmouth County. Families settle into this stretch of road and stay, which means the farm stand you grew up visiting might outlast three owners of the house next door, or it might close without anyone outside the family noticing for a year.

If you're already living that rhythm on Olde Noah Hunt Road or somewhere nearby in Clarksburg, hopefully this saves you a trip to a gate that isn't opening and points you toward the one that still is. If you're curious about what else is changing on this side of Millstone Township, from land that's shifting hands to farms that are winding down, The Haven Group keeps a close eye on this corner of the county and is happy to talk through what we're seeing. Get in touch anytime.