When Carrie Underwood isn’t rocking stadiums full of fans or judging contestants on “American Idol,” she’s tending to her family and farm near Nashville. The country superstar is married to former NHL player Mike Fisher and they’re raising two sons, 11-year-old Isaiah and seven-year-old Jacob.
If they “had to,” she told Fox News Digital in an interview published on April 25, 2026, her family of four could probably just live off their farm without ever having to go to a grocery store.
Carrie Underwood Says Tending to Her Farm is Her ‘Contribution to the Family’
Interviewed after the April 20 live episode of “American Idol,” Underwood was looking forward to heading back home to Tennessee, where she posted a video of herself the following day feeding her sheep.
“I think if I had to, I could be self-sustained at home,” she told Fox News Digital. “I love growing things. 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.”
However, since Underwood and her husband can’t tend to their property and animals full-time, she acknowledged they do have help to keep everything going.
“I feel like a lot of other responsibilities are mine,” Underwood 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.”
Carrie Underwood Built an Epic Greenhouse to Ensure She Can Grow Food Year-Round
In 2023, Underwood had the owners of Epic Gardening come to her farm, located just outside Nashville, to create an “epic greenhouse,” which they featured in a nearly 30-minute YouTube video.
“My goal is to not buy produce at the store,” she said in the video, noting that she had begun growing green beans and black eyed peas, which she said were “awesome.”
Underwood said that although she grew up on a farm, it was more about raising cattle than produce, and she didn’t get into gardening until 2020 as her family was in lockdown during COVID.
“It just made me happy to, you know, grow something from nothing,” Underwood said. “It feels like little miracles every time I get something.”
At an official Carrie Underwood Fan Club Party held at the Grand Ole Opry in early June 2025, Underwood told fans that she’s often happiest when she’s tending to the gardens on her farm.
“I was out there for like, five hours yesterday, I was sweaty and I was covered in dirt, and it was amazing,” she told her fan club. “To me, it’s just beautiful. It’s just, like, a miracle happens every day, and you’re like, there’s this teeny, tiny seed, and now there’s this giant plant in front of me, and I’m getting fruit from it. And it’s just, it’s beautiful.”
Her biggest problem, she admitted, is that she sometimes grows too much to handle of certain veggies and fruits.
“We do a lot of tomatoes, and I didn’t really mean to do a lot of tomatoes,” she laughed. “But you start a lot of seeds, and this is kind of what I — I’m notorious for this. I’ll start with a lot of seeds, thinking, ‘Well, they’re not all gonna germinate,’ and then, most of them do. And then I’m like, ‘I have 53 tomato plants, and what do I do with them?’”
