The Connected Chef

The Connected Chef Redefining food access and ensuring that every household has local, nutritious food on a weekly basi Food is a lifeline to EVERY household!

https://theconnectedchef.org

Our Lifeline Grocery Initiative is a sliding scale grocery program that offers local, nutrient dense groceries to households across Queens. Our free groceries are available to families who are out of work and do not qualify for unemployment or sufficient government assistance. Our sliding scale options are available to any community member and allow you to contribute

to your community while reconnecting with where your food comes from. And every household deserves access to fresh, nutrient-dense ingredients. By signing up for a Lifeline Grocery package, you are joining us in our mission to ensure that every person in Queens has access to local, nutritious food. Participate in our Lifeline Grocery subscription and join us in moving towards a community where food is a human right and where we are committed to one another in recreating what food access is. Join us in moving towards a community where nutritious food is a human right and where we are committed to one another in recreating what food access is.

❄️Upcoming Events and Holiday Week Pickup & Delivery Schedule Updates❄️✏️ PS17/300 & PS14QNo Wednesday pickup on 12/24 o...
12/05/2025

❄️Upcoming Events and Holiday Week Pickup & Delivery Schedule Updates❄️

✏️ PS17/300 & PS14Q
No Wednesday pickup on 12/24 or 12/31.Regular pickups resume Wednesday 1/7.Home delivery families in this community: Your delivery will shift to Tuesday 12/23 instead of Friday 12/26.
🍎 Woodside HQ Pickup
Pickup will take place on Tuesday 12/23 instead of Thursday 12/25.No additional pickups until Thursday 1/8.
🚜 LIC Queensbridge Pickup
Pickup will take place on Tuesday 12/23 instead of Thursday 12/25.No additional pickups until Thursday 1/8.
🌱 Suryaside Yoga Pickup
Pickup will take place on Tuesday 12/23 instead of Wednesday 12/24.No additional pickups until Wednesday 1/7
🚚 Direct-to-Home Deliveries
Deliveries will shift to Tuesday 12/23 instead of Friday 12/26.No additional deliveries until Friday 1/9.
🥬 Woodside Community Fresh Market
Closed from Thursday, 12/25 Reopens Thursday 1/8.

First off, thank you to our volunteers, our partners, our supporters, and Lifeline Groceries customers. Over the last we...
11/26/2025

First off, thank you to our volunteers, our partners, our supporters, and Lifeline Groceries customers.

Over the last week, our team partnered with the , and  to distribute close to 2,000 additional fresh Lifeline Groceries’ boxes to families across Queens. Our walk-in fridge is empty for now, ready to be restocked next week. Because the need isn’t slowing down.

With grocery prices at an all time high and families still reeling from SNAP delays, there is still very much an urgent need for fresh, nutrient-dense food.

This Giving Tuesday, we’re aiming to raise $350,000 toward our major campaign goal.Thanks to this incredible community, we’ve already raised $340,261 in just six months. We are so close.

If you believe in equitable, dignified, culturally relevant food access — here’s how you can help:

🔹 Donate early
🔹 Share this campaign with your network
🔹 Invite one friend to join you in supporting this work

Every gift, big or small, pushes us closer to long-term food security for families across Queens. Link to donate in bio.

Thank you for standing with us.

A big thanks to for sponsoring a Lifeline Groceries distribution alongside their turkey giveaway. 🦃 🧡 By partnering wit...
11/20/2025

A big thanks to for sponsoring a Lifeline Groceries distribution alongside their turkey giveaway. 🦃 🧡

By partnering with other local organizations, we’re able to build a food system powered by and for the community. If you’d like to support our work please consider donating or signing up for Lifeline Groceries. We deliver all year long, sourcing from local farmers who have infrastructure in place to continue growing delicious, nutrient-dense produce throughout the winter.

11/19/2025

This week at Connected Chef has been BIG.

With the support of our partners Woodside on the Move and Elmhurst Hospital, we activated our new HQ to take in and distribute significantly more groceries on top of our regular weekly output.

ALL IN ONE WEEK we are distributing:
✨ 733 turkeys
✨ 300 chickens
✨ 600 fresh focaccia from our friends at Masa Madre

Altogether, we are serving 1,700 families with dignified, culturally relevant food and that number doesn’t even include what shoppers can access through our sliding-scale Community Fresh Market.

This is what’s possible in our new home, a place where we can meet the moment, respond to callous federal cuts, and continue to build a consistent system of affordable, high-quality food access in Queens.

As we approach Giving Tuesday, your support is what keeps this work growing. If you’re able, please consider making a contribution to sustain and strengthen this essential work. 💛 [Link in bio]

🍂Come join us for our first ever Community Resource Harvest, a free community event bringing together organizations from...
11/13/2025

🍂Come join us for our first ever Community Resource Harvest, a free community event bringing together organizations from across NYC to support, connect, and empower our neighbors!

✨Whether you’re looking for education info, health resources, housing and immigration support, legal help, career tools, or spiritual care, this event has something for everyone.

🍁Let’s come together to celebrate community and share resources that make a difference.

📍 When: Saturday November 22nd
📍Where: Connected Chef Headquarters

RSVP via the google form linked in our bio!

We hope to see you there! ✨

An amazing first workshop event at our space last night!Through intentional meditation, journaling, and crafting, we cre...
11/13/2025

An amazing first workshop event at our space last night!

Through intentional meditation, journaling, and crafting, we created a wholesome environment and safe space to have honest self-care conversations. 🧘🏽‍♀️✨

Thank you for co-hosting this event with us, it was a pleasure having you!

Stay tuned for our monthly Wellness Wednesday update, we hope you can join us for the next one. And please DM us if you’re a community member or local organization interested in using our community lounge. 🫶🏼

11/10/2025

✨ We’re aiming to raise $15K this Giving Tuesday! ✨

We’re honoring the hands that feed Queens, from our farmers, to our volunteers and staff, to Lifeline Groceries and Community Fresh Market shoppers.

Thanks to you, our Queens Community Food Hub is reimagining what a healthy food system looks like when powered by people, not profit.

Your gift will be automatically doubled, so when we raise $15K, we’re ultimately raising $30K, keeping fresh food flowing and our hub thriving.

Donate today [link in bio] and be part of this movement!

Introducing our Family Planning Workshop Series! A collaboration between Haven Midwifery & Connected Chef ✨As part of ou...
11/01/2025

Introducing our Family Planning Workshop Series! A collaboration between Haven Midwifery & Connected Chef ✨

As part of our initiative to bring more holistic services at our new indoor space, we are partnering with Haven Midwifery to offer free pregnancy and parenting workshops to the community.

Join us for the first of three workshop in this series, which will focus on all things pregnancy planning and birth 🩵

🗓️When: Thursday, November 6th at 6pm
📍Where: Connected Chef HQ 37-31 58th Street, Woodside, NY, 11377
🔗Link to register:

Here’s how you can partner with us as SNAP benefits continue to be paused and/or delayed during the government shutdown....
11/01/2025

Here’s how you can partner with us as SNAP benefits continue to be paused and/or delayed during the government shutdown.

✏️ Share or sign up for Lifeline Groceries. Your purchase of a market rate+ box will help support our sliding scale Community Fresh Market and Solidarity Box distribution.

😊If you represent an organization or community group, please consider subsidizing a large order of boxes so we can distribute them to individuals and families requesting assistance.

🍎If you represent a restaurant or would like to place a bulk order of seasonal, nutritious produce from our farmers, your support goes a long way in making sure BIPOC-owned, NY based farms have resources as we go into the winter.

💚 Please consider making a donation to Connected Chef. No amount is too small and is matched. Your $5 turns into $10, $50 into $100, and so on.

The Community Fresh Market in Woodside is now open. Hours are: Thursday and Friday 2-6pm and Saturdays 11-3pm. All produ...
10/29/2025

The Community Fresh Market in Woodside is now open. Hours are: Thursday and Friday 2-6pm and Saturdays 11-3pm. All produce is available at a sliding scale from 25-50% off or full price depending on your needs. No questions asked. Come by and shop with us.

We can’t let fear or anger paralyze us. Instead, we must persist and come together to build revolutionary solutions. 💚Th...
10/24/2025

We can’t let fear or anger paralyze us. Instead, we must persist and come together to build revolutionary solutions. 💚

That’s exactly what we did yesterday! At our Ribbon Cutting + Grand Opening, you showed up, helping us raise over $6,000 in just two hours and purchase $2,000 of locally sourced groceries. The energy in our new Woodside home will fuel us as we expand access to affordable, quality food and uplift local farmers.

We’ll need that energy, because this work is not easy. In November, SNAP benefits will be delayed statewide due to the ongoing government shutdown. Meanwhile, farm workers and immigrant families across New York and the country continue to face violent persecution by 🧊 including right here in Queens. The work you came to support last night is more vital than ever before.

To everyone who came out, donated, shopped, and celebrated with us — thank you. 💚 You proved that community care is stronger than fear.
Keep the momentum going:

🛒 Shop our Community Fresh Market
📦 Sign up for Lifeline Groceries
💚 Donate — every dollar is matched, doubling your impact to feed families, support farms, and build a just, community-powered food system. (link in bio)

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