Articles by Rex Ewing
Renewable Energy
Rex writes about all aspects of residential renewable energy, for both off-grid and grid-tied homes. Topics include photovoltaic and wind energy, solar hot water, geothermal energy, passive solar design, battery maintenance, solar water pumping and more. To read his latest magazine articles, get a copy of New Pioneer on the newsstand.
Life as a Watt Farmer
Most of us in most places hardly ever give a moment's thought to electricity. At least not most of the time. We don't wonder how many pounds of coal has to be fed into the [...]
Log Homes Solar Style
As a regular contributor to Log Homes Illustrated and Log Home Living magazines, Rex wrote many articles about the various aspects of renewable energy as they relate to log homes, including several that profile off-grid and grid-tied log-home owners using solar and/or wind energy to power and heat their homes.
High-Country Harmony Near Telluride
If you are lucky enough to spend the night in Scott and Tess Van Wagner’s 1,500 square-foot, solar-powered log cabin hideaway in the Colorado Rockies near Telluride, you might wake up to the enchanting melodies [...]
Plugged Into the Colorado Sun & Wind
To hear Carole Brannon tell it, you’d think her life had become a fairytale. With a contagious smile that beams with pride, she begins her story 11 years ago, when she and her husband, Glenn, [...]
Horse Nutrition
Rex began his writing career while operating a Thoroughbred breeding / training facility, and running the John Ewing Company, a horse supplement manufacturing firm. His articles address horse nutrition, and a few fun ones, such as the first Kentucky Derby, and a tale about a long, turbulent relationship with a particularly spirited horse.
To Calm the Beast Within: Thiamin for Horses
It’s race day. You know it, and, to your dismay, your horse knows it too. Maybe because his hay bag was smaller this morning or his grain ration was cut back. Or maybe he just [...]
A horse cannot be fed everything it needs to be a horse!
As anyone who has ever tried to stay atop a rank colt on a bad day can painfully verify, pound for pound, the horse is one of the strongest animals on earth. During a mile-and-a-half [...]
