Kennet was born into a farming family in the Bree-land Homesteads. Although he enjoyed farm work as a child, he also developed a curiosity for reading, arithmetic and history. It was Head Caretaker Sam Spottiswood who advised his parents that their son should be educated at Bree, that he was cut out for it. So he spent his youth under the tutelage of scholar Alice Pickthorn, roaming the surrounding countryside and exploring all the existing ruins imagining the ancient cities and searching for relics in them. But he did not lose his farming heritage, befriending Ponto Underhill, a hobbit farmer from Staddle. From him he learned to cultivate various kinds of smoking herbs, which he sells to support his modest standard of living. And sometimes he earns a few extra coins by helping the people of Bree with their needs, as long as they are not dangerous tasks.