On a quiet Riverside street sits a 70,000 square foot warehouse. From the outside, it looks like any other storage facility: high walls, a line of loading docks and a driveway large enough for semi-trucks to come and go. But inside, the building is decorated with colorful murals depicting fresh produce, sunshine and even a homey bungalow with a real red door.
This is the central hub of Feeding America Riverside and San Bernardino Counties (FARSB), a food bank that provides groceries to about 250 local distribution sites throughout the Inland Empire.
Using food from this warehouse, local food pantries are able to provide as many as 30 million meals to needy residents each year…