Every homesteader or prepper should have a smoke house and the knowledge of smoking and curing meat. This allows you to store meat without having to have electricity! This blog post tells you how to make your smoke house and tells you how to cure your meat, with curing recipes. Here is a link to the blog http://yesterdaysfarm.weebly.com/yesterdays-farm-blog.html
When you are smoking your meat, remember to take the meat out when it is finished. Several times when smoking elk jerky my husband forgot and it was smoked to a crisp and I mean so crispy the dogs wouldn't eat it!