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
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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
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....
Grower stories: Jason’s pasture
Jason Simmons of The Overseer Saddlery at Armidale, NSW, is one of our Biocast stockists. He runs cattle on his 500 acre property, and has been using Biocast since 2017. He predominantly uses it as a seed dressing, and once a year as a foliar spray. Jason has as very...
The scoop on vermi-liquids
There are heaps of different terms out there to describe the liquids produced as a result of some sort of worm composting process - largely because there are so many different ways vermiculture can be done! They can be broken into four categories. These...
Get more with multi-species
Get more with multi-species planting As we look around our island at the moment, we see it becoming brown, and our neighbours are struggling to have feed for their animals. Yes, lack of rain is starting to bite; but we’re also in the time of awkwardness that happens...
Measuring Success
Say you’re wanting to improve your soil (well, you get these emails so you probably are!). And you know you need to change things up, because you can see that what’s been happening on your land has been leading to some undesirable symptoms. Maybe compacted soils that...
> 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!
