Guys, it’s time to dust off your jeans and stomp the mud from your boots, because your moment has arrived. Photographer Robin Woelz wants to make stars of you, and your tractors if you have them, in a fun and funny new calendar.

The 2012 “Tractor Men of Snoqualmie Valley Calendar” coming out later this year will feature 12 of the Snoqualmie Valley’s finest farmers and would-be farmers, as a fund-raiser for one or more Valley-based charities for children. The calendar is inspired partly by Ballard Firefighters fund-raising calendar, partly by the Carnation 4th of July parade.

“I was watching the Carnation parade and I brought my 11 year-old niece with me…,” Woelz began, “and after about the 10th tractor, she said ‘why are there so many tractors in this parade?’ Then one came by with a cute guy on it, and she said ‘oh, I see why!’ and I thought that was so funny!”

“You’ll never find a parade like that outside the Valley here. In Seattle, tractors are not going to be the main event,” she added.

Woelz and her friends joked about a Tractor Men calendar over a glass of wine that night, but the next morning, “I woke up and thought you know that would be kind of a fun thing to promote the Valley!”

So the FaceBook page went up, and people started talking about it, just as she hoped. Women started nominating their husbands or grandsons, placing advance orders, and volunteering to judge the auditions, as well as just cheering Woelz on.

She will need the encouragement for the ambitious schedule she is setting: auditions in August, photo shoots in September, printing in October, and calendar signings and appearances by the Tractor Men throughout the holiday shopping season.

“It’s going to take the right guys,” she says, as she thinks over her plans.

First, they have to be Valley residents, and over 18, then they have to be open to the idea of promotional events for the calendar, and finally, they have to be attractive enough for someone to want to look at them for 28 to 31 days.

No, owning a tractor was not on the list of requirements. “If they’re good-looking enough, we’ll find them a tractor,” Woelz promised.

Finding tractors will be the easiest part of the whole calendar project, actually. Woelz said a friend has connected her with a local man with a wealth of old tractors, practically a museum, for them to use.

“We have access to all the tractors,” Woelz said. “We just need to have the hot men to go with the tractors!”

Aspiring Tractor Men can audition for the calendar starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 27, likely at a Carnation restaurant. There will be three age groups, 18 to 24, 25 to 30, and over 30, and a panel of six judges will determine who’s in.

“Most of them were my friends who wanted to do it,” Woelz said about the judging, but she decided it would be best to open the judging to all ages, and so has recruited other judges, myself included.

She hasn’t really settled on how the auditions will work, except that each man will introduce himself, “and probably answer a silly question in front of the judges.”

Woelz has some very specific ideas about how the calendar will look, just a little rustic, and a little sexy.

“It’ll be sexy, but nothing you’ll be embarrassed to give your grandma,” she explains. “I want to keep it classy, but keep it Valley.”

To audition, contact Woelz on the Tractor Men of Snoqualmie Valley Calendar Facebook page, or watch for more information on the posters.