Chasing vision

lost its wheels, but gained space

Greta talks about being her own boss, and replacing the food truck with a shipping container kitchen

Story & photographs by Renée Hueston

Agriculture

When a taco truck business, situated on a lot just west of Aylmer in Malahide was posted for sale in the late spring of 2020, Greta Friesen knew it had to be hers.

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Now the eponymous owner of Greta’s Taco Wagon, she’s enjoying every minute of it. The business was for sale, along with a soft-serve ice cream stand operated on the same property.

“I heard people talking about how it was for sale. And I didn’t say a thing. I just said to myself, ‘Okay, I’m going home, I need to talk to my husband. There’s an opportunity.”

She said everything about it was perfect, “I have always, always wanted this.”

Then Greta and husband John discussed it and the next day, “We made a deal. And I started right away, training for two weeks.”

Entrepreneurship was ever-present in Greta’s life, but she got to a point where