Kayteg1 wrote:
Check all the laws before pulling the trigger.
My friends bought farmland in Yuba area, what looks very similar to what you picture.
They have pretty strong creek going via center of their property, but they are not allowed to draw water from it.
Than they spend what car cost for well drilling.
Most of California is also chasing RV and some jurisdictions also mobile homes, so they will not allow electricity hookup, till you start construction of stick structure.
On other hand, farmlands do have agriculture water supply.
For $300 a year (old price I remember), they have 2" pipe with no meter and water in it for 8 months a year. They build a pond supplied by agriculture water.
Also what might be good on long run is registering your vehicles in the country.
Much lower registration and insurance fees and possible no smogs.
I was considering same move in Las Vegas just for smog and registration issues, but finding land with water in the area proves to be impossible, when my house has lot of parking space.
It wasn't clear from the first post if the OP bought or is considering.
Definitely find out the zoning and related rules beforehand. It's very possible the property is all but unusable. Water features look nice but they increase the complications exponentially if they need to be touched and out west water rights are a huge deal.