Also, if you're going to just grow most of your food, consider some mushroom dowel/plugs. Cut off a branch of a hard wood, drill some holes, drive them in, seal them up, soak it once, keep it cool, and wait for the food to show up. Not a massive source of protein, but better than nothing.
Or learn to pick wild shrooms
Pick boldly mushrooms which insects go on.
I saw that on TV is it a real thing that works?
Yep, some of the one's I've seen are 'shroom in a bag' kind of things. Basically you have the stuff that the mushrooms are growing in bagged up and you cut slits in it, and they grow from that. Which works, they're sterilized 'fertilizer' and grow really well.
If you go with dowels/plugs that you put into a tree trunk, it's unlikely you'll get 100% growth. Trees aren't normally sterile environments and the mycelium needs a solid footing to take off. Plus, the tree could have other infection vectors on it (random other fungi/bacteria/etc). All in all, hard to sterilize a log, which is why the starter kits are more expensive.
If you've never grown mushrooms of any kind, the bag starters are the way to go. I prefer lions mane & shitake, but I hear they have lots of starters.
I've grown them for about half my life. You couldn't have worded this better. You can grown them off of pretty much any plant material, so long as it's prepared right. I've even seen them grown on old books. Sterilization is key.
My yard grows a shitload of mushrooms, none edible as far as I can tell, I do have lots of downed trees available. Thanks for the info, I'll check into it.
I thought mushrooms offered very little nutritional value.
Might depend on the mushroom. The 'recreational' kind don't offer up much other than recreation. Shitake are ~2.3g protein/cup, again not much, but better than nothing. Lions mane is supposedly ~22g protein/100g dried mushrooms and it's touted to have all kinds of neurological benefits as well.
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