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.
Click here for more general information on Biocast.
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
Five tips for improving water infiltration
Whether your water's coming from rain or irrigation, you want it getting where it counts - down to the root zone of your plant; and, ideally, deep into the soil to keep things ticking on later too. We don't want to waste that light sprinkle with it all evaporating...
How to do a soil water infiltration test
Here we run you through the steps to do a simple water infiltration test, including a how to video.
Grower stories: Del’s backyard
Delwyn Thomas. Horticulturist, Floriculturist and design Florist, author of 'What Cut Flower is That'. "Almost three years ago in late spring, Lee offered to spray my garden with Biocast+. Within a few days I was fascinated to notice there was no powdery mildew on the...
Grower stories: Peter’s orchids
Peter Bisoglio. Former owner and grower at Forest Glen Roses, Glenorie. "As a former nurseryman and cut flower grower I am quite passionate about and spend considerable time planting , maintaining, tending and extending my garden, I grow a range of vegetable crops to...
Grower stories: Gabe and Fiona’s flower nursery
Gabriel and Fiona Poole, Pinnacle Nursery Wingham. "We grow cut flowers in coco peat bags and pots in a semi hydroponic system. In about April 2015 we started using the Biocast through the fertigation system. Though we were quite sceptical and reluctant at first,...
Why we love regenerative agriculture
You may not have considered it, but regenerative agriculture applies even to worm farmers, like me. I love being part of people’s regenerative journeys, and it has reinvigorated my passion for what we do. Our farm is on Oxley Island, an island in the delta of the...
> 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!
