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This state-of-the-art, energy efficient site stretches over 36 acres. Besides the storehouse, there are also offices, headquarters for Deseret Transportation, a tire storage building and fire house. The goal here is to help as many people throughout the world as possible.
"The commodities that are in this facility are shipped worldwide. We have 110 storehouses in the United States and Canada, 100 home storage centers, and then internationally we have shipped before into about 165 different countries," said Richard Humphries, manager of the Bishops' Central Storehouse.
The storehouse operates with three temperature zones, bulk items that don't need cooling in the main room, potatoes, apples and dairy in the refrigerated staging dock at 38 degrees, and meat in the freezer at 10 degrees below zero.
An army of young men is responsible for keeping it clean. "We have young men serving missions here, serving full time missions here. And, the assignment that we've given them is that we want you to keep this building in such a state that if the Savior were to come here after hours, he would be pleased with what he saw," said Humphries.
From growing it to transporting it, everything here, managers say, exists to feed the poor. And their goal is that they, in turn, will learn to help others.
