Kenny,
Thank you for your informative and encouraging post - I'm in your debt.
I think I'm going to try mixing feather meal into my compost pile right now, and then add more when I plant. Our last frost date here is April 3rd, so there's time. The pile has 240 cubic feet (8.9 cubic yards). Now I have to find out how many ounces/pounds/cups/quarts per cubic yard to add.
As a recovering engineer I wish we all thought in metric! It would eliminate a lot of math errors...
BW--