Welcome to the home of Biocast, by Island Biologicals!
If you’re looking to grow plants that are full of LIFE,
from soil to seed, then you’re in the right place.
What would you like to do today?
Welcome to the home of Biocast, by Island Biologicals
If you’re looking to grow plants that are full of LIFE,
from soil to seed, then you’re in the right place.
What would you like to do today?
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
Upcoming Events
Farm-scale Vermicomposting
Next round starts Monday, 20 April 2026
This 4 week live online group training program aims to equip you with everything you need to know about successfully running a vermicompost system at a farm scale – it’s not just a bigger version of a backyard worm bin!
Held via Zoom over four sessions with additional online resources, our founder and chief worm wrangler Lee Fieldhouse will share his accumulated wisdom from over 10 years vermicomposting and consulting at the farm scale, with an emphasis on making it relevant to your situation.
Please sign up to our newsletter to be notified when the next round is announced. This course is also available to be delivered privately to individuals or groups, contact us if you’re interested.
Freebies
Biocast: liquid vermicast biostimulant
By Island Biologicals
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...
Observations from Oxhill Organics April 26
Last week, Lee and the kids paid a visit to Chris Eggert at Oxhill Organics, and it’s worth a discussion. Background Chris is a Biocast customer, and he always inspires us with the different things he’s trying to improve the family’s organic dairy farm. We should...
How to use Biocast this April
It is April, and an excellent time to be getting out in the paddock with the Biocast! Here are our tips for using Biocast this season, but we also encourage you to have a play to see how your land responds with different applications, even if just in a small area. We...
Options to consider when planting this season
Are you a farmer at crunch point for deciding whether to proceed without urea or not, in the face of El Niño? You might have more choices than you realise. Let’s lay some out. Disclaimer: we’re not agronomists and we don’t know your property, do your own research....
Make soil not war
Preamble I was perusing old photos and this caught my eye from the People's Climate Assembly at Parliament House, Canberra, in Feb 2020. Is there a better mantra for our times? Here at Island Biologicals, Lee and I (Kirsty) are praying hard for our brother-in-law's...
An easy way to start with multi species
This post continues with our discussion on enhancing nutrient cycling to meet your plant nutrition needs, rather than always relying on fertiliser. We introduced the topic extensively here then talked about earthworms as one way to enhance that cycling. This post is...
Fertiliser efficiency with earthworms
Could earthworms be farmer’s best friend for the season ahead? Here we are continuing the theme of enhancing nutrient cycling for fertiliser efficiency and farm resilience (see our previous post). When it comes to this you can't go past the humble earthworm! In the...
> If you have a Biocast story to share we would love to hear it! Call or email Lee on 0429 197 596 or lee@islandbiologicals.com.au
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!
