INTRODUCTION to MICROBOOST ® ("MBST")

Lakeshore Microboost, Inc., (“LMI”) produces a line of chemical free “green” products, designed for agriculture, aquiculture, horticulture, hydroponics and other organic and green industries. The processes and systems producing these products are the culmination of years of research by LMI’s founder, John Huyge. He developed methods for combining high carbon feedstocks, such as yard waste with high nitrogen feedstocks, such as farm manure and converting these into specialty soils, soil additives and biostimulants. These are the products LMI produces, packages and sells. The LMI workplace is the quintessential “green” facility. Yard waste is delivered by the Cities of Saugatuck and Douglas through their yard waste management programs. Manure is procured from local farmers, reducing the amount being field applied. Wood chips come from local tree services and the company’s own landscaping projects. These ingredients are mixed and directed to one of two processes at the facility;

1. Aerobic, static pile composting - This produces compost for biostimulant production and landscape/nursery soils

2. Anaerobic digester - Here methane gas is produced and converted to heat for use in biostimulant production, pyrolysis and product moisture reduction processes. From these two processes five primary products are produced that can be further mixed and formulated to develop specialty MBST products and for private labeling.

What is MICROBOOST®? ("MBST)

MICROBOOST® is the registered trademark for a line of chemical free, organic products, organic waste management programs, and services designed for agriculture, aquiculture, horticulture, hydroponics and the other green industries.

The MICROBOOST objective is to provide a long term, viable alternative to chemical based fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides for the green industries by producing and marketing biologically superior growth media, biostimulants and management programs.

MICROBOOST products are culture to improve the physical and biological conditions of soil and other growth media, increasing disease resistance, and improving nutrient uptake and use. Through increasing soils water holding capacity

How do MICROBOOST "MBST" products work?

MICROBOOST products are designed to increase the microbial population and diversity in the soil and on the surface of plants in the garden, field or green house. Two of the prominent types of microbes cultivated are fungi and bacteria. These microbes perform important functions. The fungi create a growing hyphae extending from plant roots, which continually increases the area from which the plant microbes can extract essential nutrients, the hyphae loosens soils and increases water holing capacity. The bacteria metabolize nutrients fixing nitrogen and delivering it to the plants.

The Science behind MICROBOOST® "MBST"

MICROBOOST® products are cultured to improve the physical and biological condition of soils and other growth media by suppressing disease causing organisms and pest populations and improving nutrient availability. MBST products are formulated to increase the population and diversity of beneficial soil microbes on the leaf, stems, and roots of horticultural plants and landscapes.

Rhizobia (root) associated bacterial cultures are primarily involved in the biostimulant’s ability to assist plants in growth and disease/pest prevention. Spores from the nearthermophillic genera of Bacillus, Closteridium, Sporosarcina, and stabilized cells from the fungi-like Actinomycetes metabolize vegetatively inert organic matter, releasing usable nutrients for plants.

These good bacteria out-compete disease causing microorganisms for space on the many surface areas of inoculated plants, and may even release toxins that may harm parasitic fungi, and damaging insect pests.

Other beneficial bacteria, from the Pseudomonas, Serratia, Azotobacter, Azospirillum, and Flavobacterium genera release helpful growth hormones that promote greater root elongation and growth, increasing the productivity of many plant species due to an increase in water an nutrient absorption.

Selected fungal spores within our biostimulants are added to create a growing network of mycellial hyphae extending from plant roots, which helps to increase the area from which the plant microbes can extract essential nutrients. The fungal hyphae also functions to loosens soils increasing water holding capacity, aeration, and erosion resistance.

Lakeshore Microboost Inc.
P.O. Box 512
Saugatuck, MI 49453-0512
(269) 857-1820

info@lakeshoremicroboost.com

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