Is this something that has ever been done successfully?
Manure is quickly claimed in my region and I refuse to buy horse crap pellets by mail from a foreign country. The postage fee would be shitty
I have an abundance of wild grasses.
I have a big pile of nearly dry Brassica straw from this years seed crops.
To make liquid organic fertilizer I tightly pack wild grasses and edible weeds into large buckets, fill them with water, and let ferment for 1-2 weeks [dilute liquid to 1/10th strength for use] and a byproduct obviously is a large mass of fermented plants a horse would eat. It smells like horse manure and my dog gets excited and rolls in it
I also do the above with biomass [often including sticks] chopped into 2 cm sections and mix the solid byproduct with 1/4 its volume in used and washed potting soil, and then compost the mixture for 6-12 months to make more potting soil. I've seen mushrooms grow in the tubs. I have much of this already prepared.
I also have an outhouse only used by a vegan that gets a high fiber, low salt diet.
Very little goes to waste here
Would any of those resources, perhaps with the inclusion of some materials from the supermarket, serve to form a substrate from which I could grow P. cubensis mushrooms?
Yield would not have to be high, since the substrate would mostly be made from free things I have in large volume. I just want a second source of mushrooms along side my old shotgun terrarium and some experience on techniques beyond BRF cakes.