You might believe that everyone who is renowned resides in a large, opulent estate in a posh neighborhood, but that is not always the case. Not only do some celebrities reside outside of Hollywood, but they also favor a more active lifestyle.
Take a look at some of the surprising celebrities who live on farms.
Julia Roberts
Roberts lives on a farm in Santa Fe, New Mexico, along with her husband and children. The family also owns chickens and grows some of their own food. Roberts said in an interview with InStyle that “We live in a world where really fresh produce and organic food are a financial luxury, so if we have that luxury, I’m going to take advantage of it for my family.”
Salma Hayek
Salma Hayek is one of the richest actresses in Hollywood, however she doesn’t live in a fancy villa, but on a ranch in Washington with her family.
Adrian Grenier
Notorious Hollywood partier Adrian Grenier virtually disappeared after reaching fame heights with the popular TV series ‘Entourage’ and films like ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ but it turns out he’s just been living his best life on a farm in Austin, Texas.
On his clean break from Hollywood, the former actor said, “I’ve done too much work not to recognize that I’m here for something bigger than going to nightclubs. I want more now. I want different now. I’ll leave those experiences for the youngsters.”
Mark Ruffalo
‘The Avengers’ star lives on a 50-acre plot of land in Sullivan County, New York, with his wife and their three children. The farmhouse is the actor’s primary home.
Russell Crowe
The actor owns a 500-acre ranch in Nana Glen, Australia, and raises more than 700 Black Angus cattle.
Zach Galifianakis
Galifianakis is the proud owner of a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, which he calls Farmageddon. The actor raises horses, and also bought bees to make honey.
Reese Witherspoon
The ‘Legally Blonde’ actress lived on a farm with her family in California, but sold the property back in 2012.
Zayn Malik
Malik loves spending time on his farm in rural Pennsylvania. He said in an interview that “There’s not a lot of things around. I do a lot of farm work.” The singer also explained that he loved animals: “Yeah, yeah, I take the horses out and feed the cows and that kind of stuff. It’s cool. I’ve always been interested in animals.”
Brad Pitt
The actor admitted to love being a farmer after he and then-wife, Angelina Jolie, bought a US$60 million winery in France in 2012.
Chris Pratt
The actor doesn’t just enjoy acting, he also enjoys raising lamb. The actor shared a video on Instagram in which he said: “Since I’ve been farming lamb for the past six months and fishing, I’m eating lamb.”
Jennifer Aniston
Aniston installed a luxurious chicken coop on her property in Bel Air and raises the chickens for eggs. “They’re very social animals and they like it when you visit them with a cup of coffee in your hand,” the actress told The Globe.
Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban
The power couple boast a 35-acre farm in Nashville and a 110-acre cattle ranch in Australia.
Elizabeth Hurley
The actress is the proud owner of a 400-acre organic farm in Gloucestershire, England, and houses chickens, geese, and other animals.
Jason Mraz
When singer-songwriter Jason Mraz is not on stage, he’s growing coffee on his farm in Oceanside, California. The musician also grows organic avocados. “I saw the importance of healthy eating so that I could sustain myself on tour, not come home depleted and sick,” he explained in an interview.
Martha Stewart
Martha Stewart has it all: a vegetable garden, cows, chicken, bees, sheep, turkeys, you name it. Every now and then, the TV personality agrees to give guided walks around her 153-acre farm.
Ellen Pompeo
‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star Ellen Pompeo enjoyed a simple life at her farmhouse in the Hamptons, before selling it in 2018.
Hayden Christensen
The ‘Star Wars’ actor bought himself a farm north of Toronto back in 2007. “I just bought a big excavator and a dump truck and a bobcat – construction toys. I plan to start building soon. I can’t wait to go out there and move dirt and get my hands dirty. It’s currently a hay farm, but I want it to be a working farm. I want to fill the barn with livestock. First pigs, then cattle and horses,” he said at the time.
Barbra Streisand
Streisand possessed a 22.5-acre ranch in Malibu for more than twenty years. The property contained three homes, a creek, several gardens, and meadows. She donated the domain to the government.
Tommy Lee Jones
The actor is a huge fan of polo and has his own 50-acre polo farm in Wellington, Florida. The ranch, which he bought in 2002, possesses 48 horse stalls, seven tack rooms, an exercise track, a separate equipment building, and (of course) a polo field.
Roseanne Barr
Farming is not unfamiliar to the actress. She used to own a farm in Iowa and is now the owner of a 50-acre macadamia nut farm in Hawaii.
Dave Chappelle
The famous comedian has lived on a 65-acre corn farm, located just southwest of Yellow Springs, Ohio, since 2005.
Sheryl Crow
The singer owns not one, but two farms. One is a horse farm, which also has a recording studio, and the second one is a solar-powered farm worth US$5.8 million.
Val Kilmer
The actor sold his over 5000-acre New Mexico ranch in 2011 for US$18.5 million. The ranch had also been used as a bed and breakfast.
Loretta Lynn
The singer’s home would make anybody jealous. Her ranch, located in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, not only possesses a haunted plantation, but also has a museum! It is also possible to get a guided tour and to rent a cabin.
Lorne Michaels
‘Saturday Night Live’ creator Lorne Michaels bought a field in Washington County and built a home there. The producer started his own wild blueberry farm and sells fresh and frozen organic wild blueberries and other organic products.
Vera Farmiga
The actress lives on a farm in upstate New York with her husband and their two children.
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Hilarie Burton
Jeffrey Dean Morgan and his wife live on the 100-acre Dutchess County farm with their children. The family also owns several animals, including a donkey and an emu.
Jennie Garth
The actress moved to a ranch in Los Olivos, California with her three children after her divorce with actor Peter Facinelli in 2013. The ranch also houses dogs, pigs, and horses.
Ted Turner
The media mogul and founder of CNN is the second largest individual landowner in North America. The billionaire owns land in different states and owns a private herd of bison.
