If you are interested, it really isn't too difficult to grow your own sphagnum moss, the live moss that eventually becomes peat after the moss dies and decays. You can skip the "dies and decays" part, and harvest, chop and dry the moss, and use it for many of the purposes where you would use peat.
I think many members here already know what live sphagnum looks like. Here is a website that talks about how to grow it and use it, including for seed-starting or making potting soil:
https://www.ruralsprout.com/sphagnum-moss/My younger brother had an interest in Venus flytraps, sundews, pitcher plants and other carniverous bog plants when he was young. He made a small bog garden, and used some dry sphagnum as the top layer of the bog garden. His container for that garden was a small child's wading pool, made of fiberglass. The dry sphagnum he used was not sterilized, and contained enough sphagnum moss spores to start sphagnum growing without really trying much. That is probably easier than all the steps in the link I provided. I think his garden started with a layer of clean sand at the base, a layer of peat on top of that, topped by dried sphagnum. From experience, you can skip the peat layer. My brother drilled a small hole in the sidewall of the pool an inch or two from the top, to allow excess water to drain off. This bog garden grew for many years, always producing sphagnum each year. You do need to keep a supply of high-quality, low solids water for the sphagnum, to get through dry spells. Collected rain water is perfect.
I am passing this along, as someone mentioned a future ban on peat sales. This might present an alternative for you. Our sphagnum resources here are sufficiently renewable that there is no need for a ban. AFAIK, nobody uses peat here to burn for energy/heat.
