Maggots, Machines & Mission: How Olympia Yarger is reinventing farming, waste, and climate tech with Goterra.

Goterra founder and CEO Olympia Yarger believes waste shouldn’t be wasted. Once a would-be sheep and cattle farmer, Olympia now wrangles maggots instead of livestock - turning food waste into high-protein animal feed and fertiliser, and helping farmers cut their reliance on imports. In this episode of The Mucky Middle, Olympia shares how she’s scaling insect-powered waste management across Australia, why solving the “proximity problem” is key to real climate impact, and what it takes to steer a first-of-its-kind business through the messy middle ground between vision and commercial success.