Grasshopper looking for guidance

[SimianCainus8]

Hello everyone,
I am quite new to forums and even newer to Yurts. This past year I began working at an Organic Vegetable Farm in Western New York. Its been a wonderful year aside from the fact that I must commute ~40 minutes each day to and from the farm. I am planning on moving in with my grandmother who lives half the distance so that should solve the dilemma for this season. However, come December 31 we are required to have the farm moved off the land we are currently leasing. So a land search for next year is underway.

One benefit to this new land is that I will be able to live on it so I've decided to build a Yurt. Before making the career change to farming I had nearly a decade in Carpentry/Construction experience and figure that the most difficult part to building this abode will be finding materials that will stand the test of our inclement weather conditions. One moment it can be nice and sunny and the next pouring buckets so humidity is a factor. I'm thinking of a nice

moisture

resistant wood for the frame perhaps cedar.

It will just be my dog and I living in it but I'd like to allow some space for guests as well. I am open to all forms of advice and resources you experts have come to cherish. Once I get some designs drawn I will post pictures but until then I'm trying to get as much material research complete so the build goes smoothly. I'd like to build is a cheaply and quality as possible without going broke. It will be more of an investment for the next few years than some cheap 'clubhouse' or permanent structure. Sorry for the long drawn out post.