Stoneplow

Stoneplow is a small village located at the very western edge of the Valley of the Four Winds of Pandaria, northwest of the Stormstout family Brewery and south of Paoquan Hollow. Adjacent to the Serpent's Spine, it is mostly known for being the birthplace of famed Pandaren explorer Liu Lang and its Mantid invasion point and subsequent hold-off by the Shado-Pan. A handful of Pandaren families have established family trees here that have flourished out to aid the Horde and Alliance alike generations later.

Crops and Export
Many types of native Pandaren vegetables and herbs are grown in its expansive fields, such as Witchberries, giant Cabbages and Ginseng. A quick glance across what's left of Stoneplow, however, reveals to the casual eye that Witchberries appears to be the export of choice, no doubt likely due to its hardiness, popularity and effort-to-yield ratio.

The Stoneplow Pandaren
Stoneplow Pandaren are the exemplars of the 'countrypaw'; stubborn to a fault, but generous and warm-hearted, a resident of Stoneplow is almost always found hard at work in their fields with their families and farmhands aiding them. Stoneplow and its surrounding fields are a far enough distance away from the Vale waters that flow through Halfhill and its neighboring Lotus fields that it does not receive its abundance of life-giving waters; their crops are not mindbogglingly huge and take much more time to grow as a result. Tillers from Stoneplow and the surrounding areas are generally used to much harder physical labor on their farms than Tillers that congregate in Halfhill; farm hands and outside help from neighboring families are essential to survival in an area otherwise so far away from the Heartland.

Mantid Incursion
The Serpent's Spine was finally broken through by an earlier-than-usual swarm of Mantid at Empress Shekzeer's command, and the inhabitants of Stoneplow were nowhere near ready for its collapse. A unit of Shado-Pan moved quickly to contain the Mantid, evacuate the citizens and repair the wall, but it was too late for some of the farming families of the town; the Burlycloud family along with a handful of other Pandaren families either lost their lives or were displaced due to the sudden onslaught of the insectoid race. With the help of Alliance and Horde adventurers, the Mantid forces were dispersed, the wall was resealed and the residents of Stoneplow resumed their daily lives; however, the Sha corruption in some areas of Stoneplow has yet to be fully healed, and as such are unable to properly support plant growth. Displaced Pandaren families have found work in other areas of Pandaria or as refugees in their respective Horde or Alliance-allied cities.