Kent & Cassie
Kent has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Accounting from Brigham Young University, is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and has a bunch of other professional designations related to insurance, fraud, and forensics. He has worked as an auditor, consultant, financial executive, and expert witness in civil litigation involving high-profile corporate fraud, famous (and infamous) Ponzi schemes, merger and acquisition disputes, and even such things as gold mines and sunken treasure, frequently with hundreds of millions of dollars at stake.
Having worked from home for the past 14 years, Kent is looking forward to a life filled with neighborhood interactions and involvement plus a farm he does not have to maintain himself. In fact, he loves to mow grass and fosters a (now not so secret) desire to be involved in bushhogging the pastures at Burns Village & Farm.
Over the past 40+ years, Kent and Cassie have lived in Utah, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee, Houston, Iowa, and Ohio and have been blessed with 7 children and 13 grandchildren. Most of their older children call Middle Tennessee home as they lived in Franklin during many of their school years, where they had 15 acres with sheep, chickens, and a horse.
Cassie grew up on family farms in Kansas and Missouri. Her father raised wheat, hay, beans, milo, chickens, pigs, and cattle. They had a pony and a milk cow. When she and Kent lived in Tennessee in the 1990’s they had 15 acres, a garden, sheep, chickens, and five wonderful children. The farm is her happy place. But the one thing she never had was close neighbors. It can be lonely on a farm. She is very excited about Burns Village and Farm, a happy place where dear friends will join her to cook and eat, garden, gather eggs, play games in the common house, and chat on the front porch.
Though she has a BS in Civil Engineering from Brigham Young University, after raising her children full-time for 16 years, she changed course and became a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. She works primarily with children and families, specializing in Attachment and Polyvagal Informed Therapies. In addition to the five farm-raised biological children, she has two beloved adopted children and 13 grandchildren. She enjoys visiting them where they have scattered across the world. When she is at home in Utah, where she and Kent currently live, she enjoys hiking, gardening, serving in her church, singing in choirs, yoga and reading. She is hoping to recover her skills in sewing, tatting, spinning and weaving when she “comes home” to Burns Village and Farm.