Would you buy these?

I have purchased bamboo stakes before. I can't remember what I paid for them.

One of the local stores had tomato plants for $12 this spring, and I assume they sold them. So just because this crew of cheapskates wouldn't buy them doesn't mean the other Farmer's market customers would not buy them.

It's getting late in the year for tomato stakes.

It wouldn't be for this year, as I'm just now getting serious about being a vender. Before now, I'd just do stuff for my own use. I figure I'd cut some of the bamboo back when I clear out an area for DWs butterfly garden. I'll let them dry over winter. I live in zone 9 so we have a pretty generous growing season here. I just try to plan ahead and want to have multiple items for sale at the market.

To my notion your not "Homesteading" if you use the yuppie foo fooraw or cutesy or stylish ways. I cut hardwood saplings or get hardwood edger strips from the sawmill at no cost except for the getting.
The hardwood edger strips seasoned will last from 2 to 5-6 years..buying things you can improvise is (in my book) not "homesteading"...

Grow some 12' ones too.

I used saplings for years. Worth a few coins for straight bamboo.

It is homesteading for me since I already had it growing here when i bought the property and its growing places where I don't want it. Its making use of something that would otherwise go to waste. Therefore, I'm not only being frugle by making my own stakes, but turning waste into profit.