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
- Part A and part B explained
- 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
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 are leachate,...
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...
Opportunistic Farming
Are you ready for low rain? Perhaps you're already experiencing it? Within the lifetime of our 5 year old, we have had severe drought, the black summer fires, and some of the worst flooding on record. Just how is one expected to farm productively in this highly...
Grower stories: Karyn and Carissa’s inoculated seed for pasture
Lee recently had a chat with Karyn Cassar of Benmar Farm, an organic dairy at Hannam Vale on the NSW mid north coast, about how their inoculated seed for pasture is going. The results are very promising! Karyn and Carissa inoculated their rye grass seed for seeding...
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...
> 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!
