US$479 plus tax and shipping - hard pass that’s a lot of store bought shrooms.
I suppose you could sell the excess..........................
You don’t need that whole setup. You can buy mushroom growing kits for much less. They may not do all the same varieties that a very controlled environment would, and there’s probably some trial and error; but people grow them under the kitchen sink all the time.
My thoughts exactly. Most starting mushroomists D-I-Y a fruiting chamber from a $10 64-quart transparent sterilite plastic tub from the store with a sign that looks like a bulls-eye. And they D-I-Y most of the rest with the exception of spores.
If you're the ambitious sort you'll learn to harvest spores from your own fruit, at which point you're pretty self-sufficient.