She’s a woman of many talents. Carrie Underwood is currently a judge on this season of “American Idol,” in her second year with this gig, alongside veteran judges Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, and she’s taken some heat this season… but it certainly hasn’t stopped her form giving the constructive feedback contestants need to hear, and when she’s not behind the table at her alma mater, so to speak, where she started her very successful country music career back in 2005, Carrie is a wife to former NHL player Mike Fisher, and mom to two young boys, Isaiah and Jacob. They live on a farm outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and Carrie has made it a point to keep them grounded and give them as normal of a childhood as possible. She often shares parts of her farm life on social media, like showing off her impressive veggies and green thumb: View this post on Instagram Carrie is also really into canning, and it seems like nothing goes to waste at the Underwood/Fisher household: View this post on Instagram It’s impressive that she not only knows how to do all that, but finds them time to considering how busy her career is, and during an interview with Fox News Digital, Carrie says she could run a completely “self-sustained” home if she needed to, and if she had “all the time in the world,” she probably would. They have tons of farm animals and grow their own food, and her husband is also an avid hunter, so they wouldn’t really need to go to the grocery store for much: “I think if I had to, I could be self-sustained at home. 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.” They’re incredibly practical skills, but obviously it’s time consuming, and I’m sure Carrie is teacher her boys a lot of that stuff too which is really cool. But because they’re still pretty young, Carrie says that she still takes on a lot of the responsibilities, but they do have a farm manager who help take care of things while she travels for work: “I feel like a lot of other responsibilities are mine. 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.” Of course, the inherent values that go along with that simple life are very important to Carrie, and during a recent interview for a SiriusXM Front Row hosted by Nicole Ryan, Ryan Sampson and Stanley T form SiriusXM Hits 1’s The Morning Mash Up, Carrie talked about raising her kids on the farm and how different that life is compared to her life on the road and performing on stage night after night. She explained that she wants them to know that life isn’t really “real,” and even when she took them on tour, she knows they way things got handed to them wasn’t real and she wanted them to know that. Day to day, she is very involved in their lives, and they have a routine similar to a lot of families with young kids, which includes getting up early, making breakfast, packing lunches and getting everyone out the door to school: “Well, there was a definite—you know, I went from living on a farm to being on stage in front of a ton of people and, you know, traveling and we’re in a different city every day and I learned very quickly that this is not real life. It’s not real life. It’s so wonderful. I love performing. I love singing. I love writing. I love being creative. Singing is definitely one of my happy places, but the world that that takes you to is just not real, and more than anything, for my family, I want them to know that. It was hard even taking my kids on tour sometimes because every hotel we’d go to, like they’d just have toys. People would just give them things and I’m like, ‘This just isn’t real,’ so it’s important for me that home is just way different than this, you know, and I feel like we have definitely established that, but yeah. I mean, my kids see me, you know, we get up, we take them to school, we’re making breakfast, packing lunches, like we eat dinner at least five nights a week at the dinner table, and it’s something I cooked. I don’t know if it’s good or not, but we ain’t starving.” It’s going to serve them well as they get older, and I have to imagine they’ll appreciate the kind of childhood their mom gave them, considering she’s a global superstar and they could just have anything handed to them whenever they want in reality. Carrie also bakes a lot and seems to be an excellent cook, so I’m sure her family eats very well and it’s all farm-to-table, so you really couldn’t ask for more… she’s like a real life Disney princess, and she made the perfect Belle during a recent episode of “Idol” too: View this post on Instagram The post Carrie Underwood Says Her Family Could Be Completely “Self-Sustained” If She Could Run Her Nashville-Area Farm Full-Time first appeared on Whiskey Riff.