Food Network star Ree Drummond has opened up about the secret to her nearly 30-year marriage to Ladd Drummond.

The TV personality and her husband, both 56, will celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary in September.

In her latest Pioneer Woman blog post, the mother-of-four — whose son’s license was just revoked — revealed that the couple’s favorite date night activity is a long drive in her pickup truck.

‘At the risk of sounding like an old married couple, we love to take drives together,’ the redhead beauty shared.

She explained, ‘There’s something about the peace of the pickup. That diesel engine is like background music, and we are focused only on each other. No laptops, devices, TV’s…it’s such a great time to catch up.’

Food Network star Ree Drummond has opened up about the secret to her nearly 30-year marriage to Ladd Drummond; pictured in 2017

In her latest Pioneer Woman blog post, the mother-of-four revealed that the couple’s favorite date night activity is a long drive in her pickup truck

About their destination, Ree said, ‘Honestly, it’s different every time.’

She added about their Oklahoma drives, ‘Sometimes we stay on the county roads and check on fences or cattle; other times we’ll drive east to Pawhuska or west to Ponca City, stopping to get a convenience store Dr Pepper when we get there. 

‘Other times Ladd will drive into this pasture or that, to show me an area of a creek that I may not have seen before, or — again — to check on a cow or a fence.’

The husband and wife are parents to four kids — Alex, 28, Paige, 25, Bryson, 22, and Todd, 21.

And they welcomed their first grandchild, Alex’s daughter Sofia, in December 2024. 

The star also revealed in her 2020 book, Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere, that she fostered a son named Jamar in 2018.

Ree said in the August 3 blog post written by Kelsey Hurwitz, ‘Now that we’re empty nesters, it’s not like we don’t have lots of time alone at home already. 

‘But there’s something about the safety and sanctity of the pickup that sparks the very best conversations.’

‘At the risk of sounding like an old married couple, we love to take drives together,’ the redhead beauty shared

The husband and wife are parents to four kids – Alex, 28, Paige, 25, Bryson, 22, and Todd, 21. And they welcomed their first grandchild, Alex’s daughter Sofia, in December 2024

The TV personality and her husband, both 56, will celebrate their 29th wedding anniversary in September; pictured at their 1996 wedding in a 2020 Instagram post

In December, the author gushed about becoming a grandmother in a heartfelt blog post.

She announced at the time, ‘My sweet little pookie head granddaughter Sofia was born ten days ago, so I thought it would be the perfect time to show you some of my favorite snapshots of the first week-and-a-half of her life.’

The proud grandparent even said she considered buying a house in Texas to be close to her daughter and the baby.  

‘I got to stay in Dallas just long enough to fall hopelessly in love with her, and I would be lying if I said I haven’t checked Zillow for houses not only on Alex and Mauricio’s street, but also on their block and actually right across the street from their house. 

‘It’s sort of like when I return from a vacation in Vail, Colorado and I start searching for houses to buy in Vail because I just don’t want that vacation feeling to end. Well, in this case, it’s even more profound: I don’t want my time with Sofia ever to end, and though neither “second home” scenario is very likely at all, a girl (and a grandmother) can sure dream,’ she penned.