Biocast: liquid vermicast biostimulant
By Island Biologicals
Life Creates Life
Welcome to the home of Biocast! If you’re looking to grow plants that are full of LIFE, from soil to seed, then you’re in the right place.
At Island Biologicals we believe that life creates life. Biocast supports the whole plant, including its microbiome, thanks to the life-stimulating compounds of earthworms and beneficial microbes. As a grower it can support you to add health and vigour to your high production systems, to get plants through stressful times (such at transplant, or climate extremes), or give you a stepping stone to get off the inputs treadmill. It is a high quality, natural biostimulant that you can feel good about applying, and that will be good for you, your family, your customers and your land.
“The health of the soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible”
Sir Albert Howard
What is Biocast?
Biocast is a liquid vermicast biostimulant. What that means is that we’ve extracted our high-quality worm poo (cast) into water, and with it all the life-stimulating compounds produced by the worm and associated microbes. These include living microbes (bacteria, fungal spores, and protozoa), growth-stimulating hormones, enzymes, autoinducers (signalling molecules), fulvic acid and trace minerals. These all work together to benefit plants and soil life. Biocast can be applied as a foliar, seed dressing, transplant drench or through fertigation systems.
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Product information
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- What is Biocast
- The active compounds in Biocast
- How Biocast is made
- Quality assurance
Application
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- Foliar (leaf) application
- Soil application
- Transplant drenches
- Seed inoculation
Recommended uses
Made in the Manning by Island Biologicals
Biocast is made by Island Biologicals. We are an Australian, family-owned and operated company based on Oxley Island, part of the beautiful Manning Valley of NSW. Our founder and Chief Worm Wrangler is Lee Fieldhouse, who has a passion for working with natural processes to bolster food production.
Our mission is to help Australian farmers add more life to our land by reconnecting with and working with natural processes when growing plants.
News & grower stories
Foliar Biocast for plant health
Using Biocast as a foliar on your plants is one of our favourite, and most common, ways to use it. If you struggle with pest and disease issues, plant nutrition challenges, lack of vigour in your plants or generally think your plants could run better, then read...
Inoculating seedlings with Biocast
Soaking the roots of your new plant in Biocast just before planting or repotting is a great way to help your plant sail through transplant shock. What is seedling, or root inoculation? Inoculation simply means that your seedling or plant roots are being populated with...
Biological seed inoculation with Biocast
Biological seed inoculation If you are putting out seed, and want it to germinate into a robust and healthy seedling in a cost-effective way, then a biological seed inoculation with a living product such as Biocast is a great option. This post gives some background on...
Boost flowering with Biocast
Happy (calendar) spring! Perfect time to talk about flowers - and how to boost flowering with Biocast! Ever since we wrote the article on using Biocast as a foliar and I (Kirsty) did a bit of a dive into the natural plant growth hormones it contains; I've been...
Tips for tree planting success
When you’re planting a bunch of new trees there’s nothing more disheartening than coming back a few months later to find most of them dead. Or perhaps you’ve had the experience of planting a fruit tree that you’re excited about, only to have it under-produce then...
Grower Stories: Kerrie and Kristian’s Trees
Photo credit: Aus Eco SolutionsKerrie Guppy has been an enthusiastic proponent of Biocast for years. Kirsty had a chat with her about how she and her team use it for tree planting. Kerrie and her husband Kristian own Aus Eco Solutions, offering "environmentally...
Lessons from Dr Christine Jones
At the coming of her retirement, we would like to honour the incredible career of Dr Christine Jones by sharing some of the things we have learned from her over the past decade or so. For those not familiar with her, her CV describes her: “Dr Christine Jones is an...
Story of a worm farmer
At the moment (early 2024), we are celebrating 10 years of commercial worm farming! Lee often gets asked how he got started. Here's our story: In the beginning Waaaaay back in the day, Lee was a carpenter. He apprenticed with his dad Col, just as Col had before him....
> If you have a Biocast story to share we would love to hear it! Call or email Lee on 0429 197 596 or [email protected]
QUESTIONS?
One of our favourite parts of business is chatting with people interested in exploring biological solutions. We are happy to discuss how Biocast or our other products and services apply in your particular situation, so please contact us today!
