Gosia Wozniacka | Civil Eats

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Gosia Wozniacka is a senior reporter at Civil Eats. A multilingual journalist with more than fifteen years of experience, Gosia is currently based in Oregon. Wozniacka worked for five years as a staff reporter for The Associated Press in Fresno, California, and then in Portland, Oregon. She wrote extensively about agriculture, water, and other environmental issues, farmworkers and immigration policy. Email her at gosia (at) civileats.com and follow her on Twitter @GosiaWozniacka.

‘I Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Up’

An animal-ag worker carries two piglets in a CAFO.

A New Film Documents the Immigrant Farmworker Journey

A poster for the film

What the Story of DDT, America’s Most Notorious Chemical, Can Teach Us Today

elena conis and the cover of her book about ddt, how to sell a poison

‘Slaves for Peanuts’ Tells the Tragic Story Behind America’s Favorite Snack

jori lewis and the cover of her book, slaves for peanuts

A New California Law Will Create a Lot More Compost—but Will it Make it to Farmland?

A pile of compost in the farm field at Shone Farm, a teaching farm at Sonoma State University in California. (Photo by Emma K. Morris)

Farmworkers Bear the Brunt of California’s Housing Crisis

FRESNO, CALIFORNIA - MAY 17: Lourdes Cardenas, a farm worker originally from Culiacán, Mexico, tends to recently washed clothes on May 17, 2021 in Fresno, California. Cardenas has been a farm worker for 18 years after coming to the U.S. from Culiacán, Mexico. The clothing worn for work are washed daily due to the pesticides used in the farms. Since November 2019, there have been three bills introduced in Congress that would give undocumented food and farm workers as well as unauthorized immigrants, a path to citizenship or legal residency status. The Farm Workforce Modernization Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives in March with bipartisan support after first being introduced in November 2019, would give undocumented farm workers a path to legal residency and protection against detention and deportation. The passage of the bill comes after months of negotiations between members of both parties, United Farm Workers, UFW Foundation, Farmworker Justice, and various national growers organizations. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Glass, Plastic, Or PLA? Dairies Struggle to Replace Single-Use Bottles

Assorted dairy and dairy-alternative beverages in bottles at a Sprouts supermarket in Texas. (Photo credit: NeONBRAND on Unsplash)

How I Changed My Relationship to Grocery Shopping—and My Financial Future

Shopping at the Birch Community Services co-op in Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Gosia Wozniacka)

In ‘Required Reading,’ Indigenous Leaders Call for Landback Reforms and Climate Justice

Black and white photo from a Landback protest in the Black Hills in July 2020. (Photo credit: Arlo Iron Cloud, NDN Collective)

Climate Anxiety Takes a Growing Toll on Farmers

Female organic farmer standing in field on foggy fall morning harvesting squash