The country music star Carrie Underwood is speaking out this week to reveal why she loves living on a Tennessee farm far away from the crazy world of Hollywood.
Underwood’s Tennessee Farm Life
Underwood, 43, lives on a Tennessee farm with her former professional hockey star husband Mike Fisher, 45, and their two young sons. According to Underwood, her family could be “self-sustained” on their farm if they had to be.
“I think if I had to, I could be self-sustained at home. I love growing things,” Underwood told Fox News. “If I had all the time in the world, I would… not really need to go to the grocery store for too much. But it’s a lot of fun. You know, I love our chickens. We have cows, we have sheep, we have donkeys. We have horses. I have my garden, and it’s a great way to connect with the earth. That’s my contribution to the family.”
“I feel like a lot of other responsibilities are mine,” she continued. “We have a farm manager who is wonderful… He’s taking care of my sheep while I’m gone. He looks after the horses and things like that. We do as much as we can, but I’m obviously not there all the time, and neither is my husband, so we do have help.”
Underwood Keeps Her Home Life Grounded
This comes one month after Underwood opened up about how she keeps her home life grounded during an interview on the ABC talk show The View.
“I don’t bring work home with me,” Underwood said. “And it is the opposite of what I do everywhere else, like being on stage and being at home. These are two different people, pretty much, and I love that because it’s like they’ll come to shows, and they’ll see me do what I do, and I feel like they’re proud.”
“But mom makes dinner,” the former American Idol winner added. “I’m usually covered in dirt, or I have farm animals everywhere, or I’m covered in poop or whatever it is. That’s mom, and I hope, more than anything, that’s what they take away from me and that’s what they remember about me. Like she was mom, and every once in a while she goes and gets on stage.”
Underwood has long been open about how much she enjoys her farm-to-table way of living.
“I love that our meals, especially dinner. It’s like you look on our plate and everything on our plates is something that either came from the garden, or my husband’s a hunter, you know. The meat is something that he got,” she said during a 2023 appearance on “The Dr. Josh Axe Show.”
“We eat what we have,” Underwood explained. “We eat seasonally. It all tastes delicious because it’s food.”
Underwood Prays In Her Orchard
Last year, Underwood spoke out to reveal that she often prays in her orchard on her farm.
“I love praying out loud in the orchard…it’s so beautiful and peaceful,” she wrote on Instagram. “I was about 15 seconds into my chat when I was surprised by a snake in the blueberry bush. Just a rat snake… nothing dangerous. But he was there…JUST as I began to pray. It obviously made me think… about God… about the devil.”
“The devil is always there… watching… lurking… even when we feel at our closest with God,” she continued. “Being a Christian isn’t a free ticket out of trouble. The world is full of evil… BUT God is with us. The snake and I kept our eyes on each other… but I got what I came for, finished my prayer and went about my morning… having faith that Mr. Snakey and the devil will both be moving along… out of my orchard and out of my way!”
We can certainly see why Underwood has no interest in living in the crazy world of Hollywood, and instead prefers a simple farm life. Here’s hoping that she has many years of happiness on her Tennessee farm to come.
God bless you, Carrie Underwood!