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Not all of your favorite stars live in Hollywood! We've rounded up the stars who've chosen to call farms and ranches home (at least some of the time) — and a few might surprise you!
"The Vampire Diaries" actor Ian Somerhalder and his wife, "Twilight" actress Nikki Reed, moved to a farm outside Los Angeles and both have essentially retired from acting in recent years. "We're farm people, we produce most of our own food, I live in my cowboy boots," Ian told E! News in 2023.
On their farm, the couple and their two kids grow everything from lavender and rosemary to cucumbers and care for animals including cows, chickens, mini donkeys and goats. "It is a lot of work," Ian admitted, but "it's unbelievable when you see these amazing creature life forms and how they all live on the farm together is really special."
In January 2023 at a screening of "Common Ground" — a film the couple produced about the regenerative agriculture movement — Nikki further told E!, "When you see the way that nature operates, you find compassion. It's a beautiful thing to see what's happening with children, to watch them participate in the growing of their food and the understanding of what food is and where it comes from."
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When actor Chris Pratt doesn't have to be in Los Angeles for work, he can often be found on his ranch on Washington State's San Juan Island. Chris raises sheep, chickens and goats on the gorgeous property called Stillwater Ranch and shares plenty of photos of all the fun on Instagram.
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Oscar winner Russell Crowe has a 560-acre ranch near Australia's east coast. He tended to his property instead of attending the 2020 Golden Globes as it was threatened by the country's widespread bushfires, which ultimately burned much of his land and ruined several fixtures on his property. Back in 2006, the Oscar winner invited Oprah Winfrey to visit and showed off his 500 cows.
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Kelis purchased 24 acres in Temecula, California, which is a few hours outside of Los Angeles, in the late 2010s and set up a farm there. The "Milkshake" singer, who lived there with her three children and husband Mike Mora until his 2022 death from stomach cancer, talked to Harper's Bazaar in 2021 about life on the farm, where she grows kale, broccoli, herbs, carrots, tomatoes, strawberries, blueberries, eggplant, lettuce, arugula and peppers, tend a citrus grove, presses her own olive oil and looks after more than 30 animals (she's even helped her sheep birth their lambs with advice from YouTube and her sister, who's a veterinarian). "You become farm people quickly," Kelis explained. "None of my friends would've pegged me as a farm person, but I'm as farm as it gets at this point." She's put her crops to good use in her Bounty & Full sauce line: In addition to making music, Kelis is a trained saucier who graduated from Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in 2008.
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It's no surprise that Martha Stewart has a stunning farm in Bedford, Connecticut. The mogul purchased the property — which boasts horse paddocks, a blueberry garden, a vegetable greenhouse, a corn crib and a hay barn, among many other Martha-approved accoutrements — in 2001. There are also donkeys, geese, peacocks and chickens plus nine full-time employees who help Martha take care of everything.
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Hilarie Burton and husband Jeffrey Dean Morgan live on Mischief Farm in Pleasant Valley, New York. The longtime Hollywood couple's 100-acre property in Dutchess County includes all sorts of animals including an emu and a donkey that are bonded pals.
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After selling two multimillion-dollar mansions in Los Angeles in 2020, Scottish DJ-producer Calvin Harris has been enjoying another piece of property — his 138-acre farm, Terra Masia, on the Spanish island of Ibiza, The Sun reported in 2022. The land, which produces vegetables, eggs, wine and farm-to-table meals on top of hosting weddings and special events, is said to be Ibiza's largest organic farm. "Calvin employs an expert team including farmers and chefs. But that hasn't stopped him getting involved and he regularly gets his hands dirty, helping to plant seeds and everything else involved in running a farm," a source told the British tabloid. "He is really passionate about what he and the team are doing."
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Farm owner Elizabeth Hurley? Yep, from 2003 until 2015, the beauty owned a 400-acre organic farm in Gloucestershire, Britain, that was home to chickens, sheep and other animals.
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We're pretty jealous of Oprah Winfrey's organic farm on the Hawaiian island of Maui, which is located on the side of a dormant volcano and grows more than 100 types of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Among her crops? Carrots, tomatoes, beets, turnips and radishes, plus O has a chicken coop that provides fresh eggs.
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After leaving "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills," former model Yolanda Hadid purchased a farm in Pennsylvania. It boasts beautiful gardens, horses, miniature horses, chickens, goats, sheep, bees and Scottish Highland cattle.
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Did you know Zayn Malik owns a farm? Yep, the former boybander purchased a farm in Pennsylvania — not far from a farm owned by former partner Gigi Hadid's mom, Yolanda Hadid. Zayn told Billboard in 2017 that the location is "out of the way and feels grounded" and that he enjoys doing simple duties when he's there: "I take the horses out and feed the cows and that kind of stuff." He told GQ in 2018 that his property also includes "crops of cherries, tomatoes and cucumbers." Gigi reportedly gave birth to their daughter, Khai, there.
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Before announcing their split in 2022, Lisa Bonet and Jason Momoa lived on a five-acre ranch nestled in the mountains in Topanga, California. Though not much is known about their property, Lisa has been seen walking a donkey on a leash nearby!
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Among Julia Roberts' many homes? A 40-acre ranch in Taos, New Mexico. She married cameraman-cinematographer Danny Moder there on Independence Day in 2002 and invited Oprah Winfrey over to interview her on the property, where the mogul was greeted by Julia's geese!
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Amanda Seyfried told late night host Stephen Colbert in 2019 that having a farm had always been her dream, and that she'd finally made it a reality. "I love animals and I love to be surrounded by them, and I wanted space," she explained. Now she owns a farm in upstate New York with a donkey, chickens, horses and goats.
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Another star who enjoys a more rustic lifestyle? Mark Ruffalo, who has a 50-acre ranch in upstate New York where he lives with his wife and children. It includes a vegetable garden and a barn and he's been known to grow strawberries.
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"Fixer Upper" stars and Magnolia Network owners Chip Gaines and Joanna Gaines and their children live on a 40-acre working farm in Crawford, Texas, near their Magnolia brand headquarters in nearby Waco. Among the animals these home renovation masters care for? Cows, chickens, pigs, goats and dogs. In Chip's book "Capital Gaines," he touched on one of the best parts of life on the farm, writing, "Getting up at four in the morning to tend the farm while the world is quiet — feeding animals, mucking stalls, gathering eggs, filling water troughs, checking fences, letting animals out into the field — is a high point to my day."
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Blake Shelton owns the 1,300-acre Ten Point Ranch in Oklahoma, which is where he married longtime love Gwen Stefani in 2021 and where they built a new house they call home when they're not working in Hollywood.
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"Star Wars" franchise star Hayden Christensen owns a farm in his native Canada — in Uxbridge, an hour north of Toronto. He bought the property in the late 2000s and told Canada's The Globe and Mail in 2018, "I'm there as much as I can — it's a place I love, and was such a departure for me, as someone who grew up in the suburbs and spent a lot of time in city environments. But I was drawn there. It was one of the better decisions I've ever made. It's a great escape."
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In 2019, Kanye West purchased two sprawling ranches in Wyoming and spent the next few years based in the state. Monster Lake Ranch, which was listed for $14 million when he bought it, is located outside of Cody, Wyoming. The 9,000-acre property has a saloon, horse barns and a shooting range and is home to two freshwater lakes. (Ye listed it for sale in late 2021 for $11 million.) The rapper-designer also reportedly plunked down another $14.495 million for the 6,700-acre Bighorn Mountain Ranch about 50 miles away. That one has amenities like heated helicopter pads as well as walk-in saunas inside the log cabins and lodges on the property. He's since moved.
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Zach Galifianakis is a proud farm owner! He has 60 acres of land in Alleghany County, North Carolina, that he's dubbed Farmageddon. Among the critters that call his farm home? Horses, honey bees and goats!
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Dennis Quaid owned a 418-acre ranch in Montana's Paradise Valley near Yellowstone National Park. He reportedly had five horses on the property at one point.
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In 2008, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban dropped about $4.5 million on a farmhouse in Bunya Hill, Australia. The property features an orchard as well as 111 acres of farmland that's home to a herd of Black Angus cows, six alpacas and some chickens. In 2015, the Oscar winner told Vogue that what she loves most about farm life is "the simplicity, the air, the peace."
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Though Kristin Cavallari famously grew up in Orange County, California, she and Jay Cutler settled on a 10-acre hobby farm just south of Nashville after he retired from the NFL. Before their 2020 breakup, the couple shared their property with plenty of critters including goats, chickens, dogs and a llama. In the early days of their split, the former couple "bird nested" at the property — rotating who was present at the home with their three children. They sold the estate in 2020.